Object Reference in Variable?

[Richard Gaskin]

Scott Rossi wrote:
> I'm having trouble remembering how to get Rev to see object references in
> variables, as opposed to the variable data.  For example, if I script:
> 
>   put the long id of field 1 into tField
>   put the number of lines of tField
> 
> I'll get '1' in the message box regardless of how may lines field 1
> contains.  I could have sworn there was a way to get this work without using
> "do" or using "the text of tField".  Is my memory faulty?

The only one I can think of offhand is "value", which executes at about 
the same speed as "do":

    put the long id of field 1 into tField
    put the number of lines of value(tField)


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