Dumb Question About Variables (Revisited)

[Pierre Sahores]

Gregory Lypny wrote:
> 
> 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


Hi,

The simplest way to solve this kind of needs is to use array vars.

Best Regards, Pierre Sahores

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