Dumb Question About Variables (Revisited)

[Gregory Lypny]

Hi Everyone,

     A few days ago I asked about creating variables on the fly.  It was 
suggested that I enclose the unchanging part of the variable name in 
quotations.  So I tried the repeat loop below as an experiment, hoping to 
generate H1 = 11, H2, =12, and so on, up to H10 =20.

 repeat with i = 1 to 10
    put i+10 into ("H" & i)
 end repeat

     It doesn't fly, unfortunately, and the error message I get is bad 
chunk and a reference to the left parenthesis.  Removing the parenthesis 
doesn't help, but makes H the bad chunk.  However, I remember being able 
to do this in HyperCard.  Any thoughts?

     By the way, the technique above (as I think everyone knows) works if 
the container is a field rather than a variable.

     put i+10 into fld ("H" + i)   -- not a problem


     Greg



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