making \ a delimiter

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

Hi,

I want to take this string
00:00:00:00
and turn it into this string
00:00:00:00

I have tried to use applescript delimiters to get it done but applescript keeps seeing the \ character and thinking I want to escape the next character in my script so I can’t seem to change the applescript delimiter from : to :

Could someone suggest the right way to go about this?
Thanks in advance
L

#2

Hi.

Escape the escape character. :slight_smile:

set applescript's text item delimiters to "\\:"
#3

Thanks for your quick response!

but when I try that I get…

00\:00\:00\:00

here is how I am going about it

try
	set TC_a to "00:00:00:00"
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
	set TC_a_items to text items of TC_a
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "\\:"
	set tc_b to TC_a_items as string
	
on error
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
end try

thanks again

#4

That’s what you’re seeing in Script Editor. But the string itself only contains single backslashes. Try adding this to the end of your script:

display dialog tc_b
#5

well bugger me
true
once again, you guys rock