variable trouble

[larry at significantplanet.org]

Hi Scott,
I meant to say "inexplicable to me."
Your solution works great.
However, I cannot figure out the next part:
I want to put the value of thisKey into a variable when it matches.
So I tried a few iterations of:

put value(thisVar[thisKey]) & space after newVar

but could not get anything to work - with the parenthesis in different 
places.

Do you know the syntax for adding the bracketed thisKey ??

Thanks,
Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com>
To: "LiveCode Mail List" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: variable trouble


> Hi Larry:
>
> Your situation is very explicable.  In your script you're treating
> "thisVar" as an array, instead of accessing the array that you put into
> thisVar.  You're trying to use one variable to refer to another.
>
> If I understand the result you want, one way would be to use the value
> function, to retrieve the data of the array stored in thisVar:
>
> put "wgList0" & N into thisVar
>
> put the keys of value(thisVar) into theseKeys
>
>
> Hope this works for you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
>
>
>
> On 9/23/14 11:07 PM, "larry at significantplanet.org"
> <larry at significantplanet.org> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm using 6.6.3 on Windows XP.
>>
>>This line of code works just fine:
>>put the keys of wgList03 into theseKeys
>>
>>but the following lines of code do NOT work: (where N is 3)  -- and yes,
>>it IS a ZERO after wgList
>>
>>put "wgList0" & N into thisVar
>>
>>put the keys of thisVar into theseKeys
>>
>>To me, this is just inexplicable and very frustrating.  Any help will be
>>greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Larry
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