macOS Applescript-set variable to item _ of variable

[Cojust]

Little help here, i use text items quite a fair bit, however, i have a slight problem. If i have a set amount of text items a variable will contain, for example, 3, this would work fine

set {var1,var2,var3} to text items of variable

However, if i do not know exactly how many variables, eg just 2 text items are in the variable, it throws an error. What i use now to solve that is

try
set var1 to text item 1 of variable
on error
set var1 to ""
end

Is there a more efficient way to do it?

 

[kainjow]

You can try something like this:

if (count of text items of variable) ≥ 1 then
    set var1 to text item 1 of variable
else
    set var1 to missing value
end if

 

[Cojust]

My bad. What i wanted to do is as

try
set var1 to text item 1 of variable
on error
set var1 to ""
end

, but more efficiently(if there is such a method)