Dumb Question About Variables (Revisited)

[J. Landman Gay]

Gregory Lypny wrote:

>  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.

It looks like you have to declare the variable first. The script below
works, but it will need some adjustment to be useful because the
variable is replaced by its own value each time through the loop:

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

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