Split rows of text into batches

ComplexPoint, some great links and advice there, thank you.

I notice in the Stackexchange example they gave a path /lots/of/little/files/here

Forgive my ignorance, but should it not be ~/lots/of/little/files/here

Or is it a case that / will force it to the root while ~/ forces it to the home?

Hey Jon,

It's not a matter of forcing; it's a matter of addressing.

The guy on Stackoverflow was just indicating some path goes here.

Note that any path with spaces in it must be quoted or escaped.

'/Users/me/test_directory/Some Folder with Spaces/'

OR

/Users/me/test_directory/'Some Folder with Spaces'/

NEVER:

'~/test_directory/Some Folder with Spaces/'

Putting a quote in front of the tilde prevents it from expanding properly

This works:

~/'test_directory/Some Folder with Spaces/'

-Chris

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Thanks Chris. I have now got a script that rotates through the split files in a folder, shows the filename and list of contents on a popup so I can check its working ok. Now I am working on getting it to paste into the form correctly. Iā€™ve used the Pause Until a specific button appears, then I tab 3 times to get to the field, but its proving inconsistent, hence a new post about how to click in a field. Slowly getting there!

And yes, ā€œaddressingā€ was the correct term. I couldnā€™t think of the right expression there.