Middle Element

The Middle Element reference form specifies the middle object of a particular class in a container. This form is rarely used.

SYNTAX



 
middle className

where

className is the class identifier for the specified object.

EXAMPLES



 
tell application "AppleWorks"

    middle paragraph of text body of front document

end tell



 
middle item of {1, "doughnut", 33} --result: "doughnut"

middle item of {1, "doughnut", 22, 33} --result: "doughnut"

middle item of {1, "doughnut", 11, 22, 33} --result: 11

NOTES

AppleScript calculates the middle object with the expression ((n + 1) div 2) , where n is the number of objects and div is the integer division operator. If there is an even number of objects in the container, the result is rounded down. For example, the middle word of a paragraph containing twenty words is the tenth word.