Using a field list to act as variables?

Martin Baxter martin at materiaprima.fsnet.co.uk
Thu Apr 8 17:27:09 EDT 2004


Hello Glen,

try:

 put "1,2,3" into yt1
 put "4,5,6,7" into yt2
 put "9,8,7" into yt3
 put empty into tSolar
 repeat for each line L in field "nOrbit"
  put value(L) & cr after tSolar  --##
 end repeat
 delete last char of tSolar
 put tSolar

HTH

martin

>Hi,
>
>I am experimenting with the following and was hoping someone can tell
>me why it doesn't work...
>
>I have a field nOribit with 3 lines
>
>yt1
>yt2
>yt3
>
>on mouseUp
>put empty into tSolar
>repeat for each line L in field "nOrbit"
>put L & cr after tSolar
>end repeat
>delete last char of tSolar
>
>put "1,2,3" into yt1
>put "4,5,6,7" into yt2
>put "9,8,7" into yt3
>
>put tSolar  -- this gives yt1,yt2,yt3 and not the values
>
>if I do the following
>
>put yt1 & cr & yt2 & cr & yt3 into tSolar
>
>put tSolar -- this gives the values
>
>
>Yes, I know that an array would work but I'm trying to understand if
>there is a way for the above to work.
>
>thanks,
>
>Glen
>
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