Variable holding a chunk

[Jim Carwardine]

It's always driven me crazy and now I can't remember from the HC days
whether I had to use the value of expression or not.  It's just that each
time I use it, if it has been more than a few weeks, I have to relearn it.
Thanks everyone... Jim


on 1/6/07 2:49 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:

> I personally always "live" in the dictionary. It has a field at the top
> which filters stuff out for you as you type. For this specific function, I
> would probably type in "evaluate" because I want Rev to "evaluate" the chunk
> expression rather than to use it as a literal string. This gives you the
> merge() function, which isn't what you're looking for, but the value
> function is mentioned under the "See Also:" heading.
> 
> Incidentally, the merge() function works like mail merge in a word
> processor, but with expressions.
> 
> So,
> 
> put merge("line 2 of fld 1") gives you:
> line 2 of fld 1
> 
> but
> put merge("[[line 2 of fld 1]]") gives you:
> Bob
> 
> eventually, I just learned that "the value of" was what I wanted and haven't
> had to remember any tricks.
> 
> I am not sure why "evaluate" doesn't also return the value function; it
> probably should.
> 
> "Jim Carwardine" 
> <JimCarwardine at OwnYourFuture-net.com> wrote in
> message news:C1C4ABBA.9310%JimCarwardine at OwnYourFuture-net.com...
>> Hi Bill... I have 2.7.4 on MacIntel... Jim
>> 
>> 
>> on 1/5/07 6:03 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:
>> 
>>> you have a chunk *expression* in myvar :)
>>> 
>>> put the value of myVar
>>> 
>>> will work. As for the help file, what version of Rev do you have?
> 
> 
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