AppleScript remove spaces from do shell script result

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rxconsulting OP

Created May ’20

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I am getting a count of files with a certain name extension in a directory chosen by the user like so:

set fileCount to do shell script "find " & (quoted form of usrTarget) & " -name \"*.asd\" | wc -l"

When the resulting number is printed in my confirmation dialog:

set confirmDialog to display dialog "Found" & (fileCount) & " files with the name extension \".asd.\" Ready to delete? This action cannot be undone!" with icon file rxIcon buttons {"Abort", "Delete"} default button "Delete"

The dialog works fine, but it keeps the spaces that are included in the output of the shell script. How would I go about removing those spaces from my "fileCount" variable for the sake of the dialog not looking weird? e.g

"Found: 104 files with the name extension .asd." instead of

"Found: 104 files with the name extension .asd."

Answered by red_menace in 422479022

In AppleScript, the words of a string are where there is a continuous series of letters, numbers, and certain symbols, so an easy way to get rid of that whitespace would be to get the first word, for example:

first word of fileCount

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red_menace OP

May ’20

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In AppleScript, the words of a string are where there is a continuous series of letters, numbers, and certain symbols, so an easy way to get rid of that whitespace would be to get the first word, for example:

first word of fileCount

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rxconsulting OP

May ’20

Thanks again.

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