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copied!<p>AppleScript's <strong>text item delimiters</strong> are used to determine how text is broken apart and/or reassembled. When you get the text items of a string, the string is broken apart at each delimiter, and the result is a list of the pieces. Going the other way, if you coerce a list of text items to a string, the pieces are reassembled with the delimiter used in between each piece.</p> <p>For your example, you could use something like the following (I added a little formatting to get your result):</p> <pre><code>set theList to {¬ "/Volumes/PREPRESS/1_CATALOG/2_Press/PRINT_Catalog/2012/•CUSTO_4/BODY/: 65", ¬ "/Volumes/PREPRESS/1_CATALOG/2_Press/PRINT_Catalog/2012/•CUSTO_4/BODY/: RESENDS 0", ¬ "/Volumes/PREPRESS/1_CATALOG/2_Press/PRINT_Catalog/2012/•CUSTO_4/COVERS/: 23", ¬ "/Volumes/PREPRESS/1_CATALOG/2_Press/PRINT_Catalog/2012/•CUSTO_4/COVERS/: RESENDS 6"} set finalResult to {} -- this will be the final result set tempTID to AppleScript's text item delimiters -- stash the original delimiters repeat with anItem in theList set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "•" set pieces to text items of anItem -- break apart at bullets log result set theFile to (rest of pieces) as text -- drop the first piece and reassemble set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/" set pieces to text items of theFile -- now break apart at slashes log result set lastPiece to last item of pieces -- trim the last piece a bit set theCount to 0 repeat while first character of lastPiece is in {space, ":"} set lastPiece to text 2 thru -1 of lastPiece -- trim it set theCount to theCount + 1 -- count up trimmed characters end repeat if theCount > 4 then set lastPiece to tab & tab & lastPiece -- add a little formatting... set last item of pieces to lastPiece -- put the trimmed piece back set text item delimiters to tab & tab set pieces to pieces as text -- put the pieces back together with tabs log result set end of finalResult to pieces -- store the reassembled text for later end repeat set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tempTID -- restore the original delimiters choose from list finalResult with empty selection allowed -- show the results </code></pre>

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