What's the easiest way of determining the suffix of a file?

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#1

G’day

I’ve seen, somewhere on these pages, a way of getting the file suffix, that was as easy as something like

set thesuffix to suffix of theFile.

but I can’t find it anywhere.

Any help please.

Regards

Santa

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#2

:smiley:

set the_file to choose file
set suffix to name extension of (info for the_file)
#3 
display dialog name extension of (info for (choose file))
#4

That was QUICK, thanks James & Stefan

#5

Thank stefan, his rocket like responses prompt me to try and move ever faster :stuck_out_tongue: