Good work, Tom! Eat some turkey, have a nap, then regroup. Thanks for
sharing that link, Darrel.
At 9:47 AM -0800 11/23/05, Darrel Plant wrote:
I don't know. It sounds like coverage of the race was pretty
positive. 25% of the vote when you got outspent over 10:1? That's a
good thing.
Well, as Tom and some others know, I'm another Director developer who's
run (although not as seriously as Tom) for a state legislative seat. In
1994 I got about 23% of the vote in a primary for the Oregon House where
I was outspent 20:1. The district is about 70% Democratic, and whoever
wins
is it the # of the last element in a list?
Sorry, Buzz. I should've been clearer. I'm looking for a quick way to
take a path (string) and chop it down to just the file name. I came up
with this:
on reduceToFileName(thePath)
-- chops off all slashes (char 92) and returns just the file name.
hi michael,
a common way do this is to use
tPathDelimiter = \ -- or: the last char of the moviepath
the itemdelimiter = tPathDelimiter
tFileName = the last item of tPath
cheers,
valentin
Mendelsohn, Michael wrote:
is it the # of the last element in a list?
Sorry, Buzz. I should've been
The technique I'm usually using is this
if the platform.environment contains windows then
separator = /
else
separator = :
end if
OldDelimiter = the itemdelimiter
the itemdelimiter = separator
filename = the last item of filepath -- assuming filepath contains
the whole string
the
BTW - Tom, did you get elected?
Nope. It was a bad night to be a Republican in the Commonwealth of
Virginia.
Sorry about that -
I had forgotten that the Republican for Gov didn't get elected even
w/Dubya's help ...
Better luck next time.
-Buzz
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