AppleScript: The Definitive Guide

Index

Symbols

" (quotation marks)

delimiting literal strings, String

empty strings, signifying, One for All and All for One

escaping for AppleScript in FileMaker Pro, Internally Scriptable Application

escaping in strings, String

inside comment delimiters, Comments

strings formatted for osascript, Unix

strings, AppleScript in VBA, Internally Scriptable Application

& (ampersand), concatenation operator, Naming of Parts, Concatenation Operator, Description

( ) (parentheses)

determining order of operations, Parentheses

in comment delimiters, Naming of Parts

* (asterisk)

comment delimiters (* *), Naming of Parts, Comments

wildcard value type ('****'), Value Type

+ (plus sign), addition operator, Description

, (comma), separating items in lists, One for All and All for One

- (hyphens)

in single-line comments, Comments

string consideration, String Considerations

- (minus sign), subtraction and unary negation operator, Description

.scriptSuite and .scriptTerminology file formats, Dictionary

.sdef files, Dictionary

/ (division) operator, Description

: (colon)

in named parameters, Named Parameters

in records, Record

= (equals sign)

equality operator, Comparison Operators

\ (backslash)

entering in a literal string, String

escaping variable names enclosed in pipes, Variable Names

\n (newline character)

escaping in strings, String

Unix line breaks, Lines

\r (return) character, Lines, String

\r\n (Windows line break), Lines

\t (tab character), String

` (backtick) operator, Unix

{ } (curly braces)

delimiting lists, List

empty lists, ...