[OS X TeX] Re: Alpha, DoScript and non unix like paths

[Maarten Sneep]

On 6 jan 2005, at 13:22, Joachim Kock wrote:
> tell application "AlphaX"
>    set theAnswer to DoScript "win::getInfo " & "\"" & fileName & "\"" 
> & " " & "dirty"
> end tell
>
> This is not particularly elegant, but perhaps with AppleScript's " and 
> &
> syntax there is no better solution?

Slightly shorter (pre-concatenate a few string constants):

tell application "AlphaX"
    set theAnswer to DoScript "win::getInfo \"" & fileName & "\" dirty"
end tell

But that is as clean as it gets. Or you use some string constants:

set quote to "\""
set space to " "
tell application "AlphaX"
    set theAnswer to DoScript "win::getInfo" & space & quote & fileName 
& quote & space & "dirty"
end tell

Maarten

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