Re: [Help] "Can't get character 1 of..." error

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From: Shane_Stanley
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:58

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The way you refer to ranges of text has changed completely in CS, and 
now matches the "normal" AppleScript method. So asking for "characters 
x thru y" returns a list, and to extract a string you use "text from 
character x to character y". The good news with this is that ranges can 
be described by other than characters -- "text from character 1 to word 
3 of paragraph 5", for example.

> set KernTextBefore to object reference of characters (fSlash - 1) 
> through fSlash of PStory

Try:

  set KernTextBefore to object reference of text from character (fSlash 
- 1) to character fSlash of PStory

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

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