Question

It’s very straightforward to make one variable the result returned from a dialog in applescript, but is it possible to use the first and second letter as two separate variables and the rest of the result returned from the dialog as a third? Below there’s a code example with what I want to do and approximately where I think I want to do it.

    tell application "Finder"
        activate
        display dialog "newNameOfFolderDialogue" default answer "x"
            set categoryOne to [THE FIRST LETTER OF] (text returned of result)
            set categoryTwo to [THE SECOND LETTER OF] (text returned of result)
            set categoryThree to [THE REMAINING LETTERS OF] (text returned of result)
end tell

Answer 1

Couldn’t be simpler:

set theText to text returned of result
set categoryOne to the first character of theText
set categoryTwo to the second character of theText
set categoryThree to (text 3 thru (length of theText)) of theText