Re: correspondent of "itemByRange" (JS) in AS

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From: Shane_Stanley
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:53

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On 29/6/06 12:05 AM, "Milazzo David" <member@adobeforums.com> wrote:

> I find that :  
> set logname to characters 1 through ((length of pictname) - 4) of pictname as
> string 

That's not a good way to do it. You're getting a list of characters and then
coercing them to a string -- that's inefficient, and also potentially
troublesome, depending on what your text item delimiters are set to. Better
to use:

 set theText to text from character x to character y of myStory

which gets the contents, or:

 set theText to object reference of text from character x to character y of
myStory

to get a reference to it.

To apply a style, Martin can use:

 set applied character style of text from character x to character y of
myStory to myCharStyle

-- 
Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>

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