expanding an error description

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jun 10, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Phil Davis wrote:

> Has anyone already developed a code snippet that does this?
>
> I help maintain some software whose users can sometimes generate an  
> error by entering malformed data in a given field (e.g. non-numeric  
> data where math is done after data is moved into temp variables).  
> What I'm looking for is some code that displays the contents of the  
> variables containing malformed data. However, the error handling  
> code is in a libraried stack so I assume I can't just "get the  
> variableNames" from there and work with those, since the error  
> occurred in the script of a different stack.

You could use the debugContext to get the variable value. This lesson  
shows how to set "it" in another context. You could probably figure  
out how to do it by looking at the example.

Write A Command That Sets 'the result' And 'it': <http://revolution.screenstepslive.com/spaces/revolution/buckets/tutorials/lessons/923 
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Regards,

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Trevor DeVore
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