Why doesn't this work?

[Bill Vlahos]

Unfortunately neither of these suggestions work. LiveCode doesn’t like the parenthesis.

I also tried using quote & syntax and that didn’t work either.

Bill

> On May 31, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> 
> Bill,
> 
> It doesn't work because LiveCode first parses "url [the url]" and then concatenates the subsequent strings. Try using parentheses:
> 
>   put "805" into vAC
>   put URL ("http://www.webservicex.net/uszip.asmx/GetInfoByAreaCode?USAreaCode=" & vAC) && "HTTP/1.1"
> 
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> On 5/31/2015 18:29, Bill Vlahos wrote:
>>    put "805" into vAC
>>    put URL"http://www.webservicex.net/uszip.asmx/GetInfoByAreaCode?USAreaCode="  & vAC && "HTTP/1.1"
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