Name
text item delimiters — “” (the empty string)
Description
The text item delimiters
has two uses. It is used to split a
string into its text item
elements (Section 13.4).
And it is used to join list items when
a list is coerced to a string (Section 14.6, and
please reread the warning there).
Example
set text item delimiters to ":" text item 1 of (path to system folder as string)
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