Passing flds as Parameters?

[Arthur Urban]

> > How can I pass a fld in a send command and still retain the 
> multiple 
> > lines of that fld? I'm trying the following:
> > 
> >    send "hander" && fld "f" to btn "b"
> > 
> > This only sends line 1 of the fld. If I try:
> > 
> >    send "handler" && quote & fld "f" & quote to btn "b"
> > 
> > then I get all the lines but unwanted quote marks. How do others 
> > handle this situation?
> 
> Arthur, I set up two fields and two buttons. In the first 
> field I put a bunch of text (multiple lines).
> 
> The script of btn 1 was:
> 
> on mouseUp
>   send "doIt" && fld 1 to btn 2
> end mouseUp
> 
> The script of btn 2 was:
> 
> on DoIt pWhat
>   put pWhat into fld 2
> end DoIt
> 
> I then clicked button 1 and my text appeared in fld 2, 
> multiple lines and all. Perhaps it's something else?

While I can't fix my problem, I have narrowed it down to having commas in
the source data. I suspect the send command is truncating my data at the
first comma it finds expecting further parameters. Got  any ideas? Seems
rather absurd that I would have to "escape" all my commas and then reinstate
them.