Syntax problem

[Varen Swaab]

Thanks Sarah

I don't think I understand your reply. The variable "theLink" holds a
well-formed url. I'm looking to add to that url by adding the contents of
another variable "subID"

Example:

variable theLink holds  "http://www.google.com"
variable subID holds a number such as "44568"

I'm looking for a way to combine both variables so the result is:

http://www.google.com/44568

I have been trying to combine the values of both the variables like this:

get URL(&theLink&"/"&subID&)

and nothing will work that I've tried. Given the fact that all the other
code in my example works fine and all I want to do is append an existing url
with the variable subID I thought the code would work as my example above.

In your example you're showing how to match a url sting and a variable but
I'm trying to combine two variables, one of which holds a url and the other
a number. I have no idea of the correct syntax to do that.

Thanks for helping.

Varen 



On 5/5/05 9:59 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <sarahr at genesearch.com.au> wrote:

>> I'm trying to create a url to connect to an http server. If I use this
>> code:
>> 
>> get theLink
>> 
>> then, everything works fine. The variable  "theLink" contains a fully
>> formed
>> url such as:
>> 
>> "http://www.server.com/path/path.
>> 
>> I'm trying to extend this url by adding the value of another variable
>> "subID" which is entered by the user. This additional value needs to be
>> added to the original url without breaking it and then initiate a get
>> command.
>> 
>> So, the end result will be:
>> 
>> http://www.server.com/path/path/uservalue
>> 
> OK, I see now. What you need to do is work out the exact URL that you
> would need if entering it into a browser address.
> For example, to search Google for RunRev, you need the following URL:
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=RunRev>.
> If I was allowing a user to do a Google search by clicking on a linked
> word or phrase in a field from my program, I would have something like
> this:
> 
> on linkClicked pLink
>    put "http://www.google.com/search?q=" & URLencode(pLink) & ">" into
> tURL
>    get tURL
>    -- do stuff with it
> end linkClicked
> 
> Test the links in a browser first and look at the address bar to see
> the exact format that the particular site needs. Have you script "put"
> the text it is going to use for getting the URL and keep testing that
> text in a browser until it does what you want. Then switch to using Rev
> to "get" the page.
> 
> Cheers,
> Sarah
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> Varen Swaab