Why doesn't this work?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Bill,

"Doesn't like" is far from informative. Could you describe the unwanted 
behaviour and include the exact text of any error messages you get?

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On 5/31/2015 18:55, Bill Vlahos wrote:
> 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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>> Best regards,
>>
>> Mark Schonewille
>>
>> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
>> Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer
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>>
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>> http://qery.us/468
>>
>> Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" http://qery.us/3fi
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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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