value of variable

[Hershel Fisch]

On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 09:28 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> On 9/28/04 5:42 PM, "Hershel Fisch" <hershrev at realtorsgroup.us> wrote:
>> on mouseUp
>>    answer "What kink of file are you putting ?" with "Tab Delimited" 
>> and
>> "Comma Delimited" and "Cancel"--and on
>>    put word 1 of it into sFileType
>>    if sFileType is "cancel" then
>>      exit mouseUp
>>    else
>>      answer file "a"
>>      put it  into fld "f1"
>>      do " put URL" & quote & "file:"& it & quote &" "&"into fld" &" "&
>> quote & "f1" & quote
>>      replace sFileType with "'" in fld "f1"
>>    end if
>> end mouseUp
>
> Hershel, your code above puts the path from 'answer file' into fld 
> "f1", and
> then puts the contentes of the file into the same field, overwriting 
> it. You
> don't need to do that. You also don't need to do the replace action on 
> the
> data *in* the field; it's best to do it in a variable first. To use the
> string that came back from the first "answer", you need to use "do" to
> resolve it to a variable and not a string. Something like this:
Thanks, the reason I put it into the fld is to see whats going on.
Hershel
>
>   answer file "a"
>   if it <> "" then
>     put url("file:" & it) into tData
>     do "replace" && sFileType && "with" && quote & "'" & quote in tData
>     put tData into fld 1
>   end if
>
> HTH,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
>
>
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