AppleScript: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Name

text item delimiters

Synopsis

"" (the empty string)

"" (the empty string)

The text item delimiters global property has two uses: it is used to split a string into its text item elements (see "String" in Chapter 13), and it is used to join list items when a list is coerced to a string (see "List Coercions" in Chapter 14). In theory it is a list of strings, but in fact it can be set to a string, and if it is a list, only the first item of the list matters.

Example

set text item delimiters to ":"
text item 1 of (path to system folder as string)