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macOS Applescript: extracting "up to" x chars of a string

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cricketbird

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Original poster
Feb 17, 2008
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I have a string that I want to use as a filename when saving a document. However, the string varies in length (up to several thousand words), so I want to cut it down to something more reasonable.

I have this, which correctly uses just the first 100 characters as the filename:

Code: 
set myTitle to text 1 thru 100 of myLongString
	make new document
	set text of document 1 to otherStuff
	save document 1 to "/Users/Me/Desktop/" & myTitle & ".html"

This works fine whenever myLongString is more than 100 characters long. However, it spits back an error if it is shorter. How can I save my file as "up to" the first 100 chars of myLongString?

Thanks,
CB
 
Partron22

Partron22

macrumors 68030
Apr 13, 2011
2,655
808
Yes
Code: 
-- comment out one of the lines below to see how the code handles the other:
set myLongString to "Frozen pizza and chickpeas"

set myLongString to "The following normative documents contain provisions which, through reference in this\rtext, constitute provisions of this International Standard."

if length of myLongString is less than 100 then
	set myTitle to myLongString
else
	set myTitle to text 1 thru 100 of myLongString
end if
 
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