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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