holidng another variable name within a variable

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Richard,

Here's an example:

put "some text" into myVar
put "myVar" into myVarName
do "put" && myVarName && "into myLastVar"
put myLastVar --> some text

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On 14 jun 2012, at 17:02, Dr. Hawkins wrote:

> It seems to me, that back in the mists of time, I used a variable to
> hold the name of another variable in hypercard and supercard 1.5.
> 
> Is this possible?  Or is it my memory?
> 
> So I would put "fred" into theVar, and use
> 
> put theVar  to get the value of Fred.
> 
> but this doesn't seem to work
> 
> 
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