Indirect reference

[Pete]

If your variable did not contain the word "field", you could do:

put "10:00 AM" into field tfield

or leave the variable as it is and:

put "10:00 AM" into field (word 2 to -1 of tfield)


Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Howard Bornstein <bornstein at designeq.com>wrote:

> I know I've done this before but I can't seem to remember how at this
> point.
>
> I want to make an indirect reference through a variable. For example, I
> have a variable, tField, that contains this string: field "Time" of card 1
>
> I want to put something into field "Time" via this variable. So I want to
> say something like put "10:00 AM" into tField, but rather than have it go
> into tField (in which case, tField would contain "10:00 AM") I want it to
> go *through* tField so that the value goes into field "Time".
>
> Any reminders on how to do this?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Howard Bornstein
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