Help With Apple Automator

[StarGeek]

Admittedly, this is a guess since I don't work with Applescript, but you might try changing
set camera_make to "  -make=" & camera_make
to
set camera_make to "  -make='" & camera_make & "'"

and
set camera_model to " -model=" & camera_model
to
set camera_model to " -model='" & camera_model & "'"

[whirl]

Admittedly, this is a guess since I don't work with Applescript, but you might try changing
set camera_make to "  -make=" & camera_make
to
set camera_make to "  -make='" & camera_make & "'"

and
set camera_model to " -model=" & camera_model
to
set camera_model to " -model='" & camera_model & "'"

Thanks.

What does adding "'" do ?

[Phil Harvey]

He has added single quotes around the camera make and model to guard against spaces in these strings, which should work if the Automator uses the same parsing rules as a command shell.

- Phil

[whirl]

He has added single quotes around the camera make and model to guard against spaces in these strings, which should work if the Automator uses the same parsing rules as a command shell.

- Phil

Thanks Phil.

Automator must use the same parsing rules because it worked fine.

[Hubert]

It's AppleScript rather than Automator that's doing the parsing, as all of this is part of a "Run AppleScript" Automator action.

For simpler reading (and typing) you can also use the "quoted form of" construct:

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set camera_make to "  -make=" & quoted form of camera_make

--returns "-make='Some camera'"

set camera_model to " -model=" & quoted form of camera_model

--returns "-model='Some model'"