Why doesn't this work?

[Bill Vlahos]

My apologies. Mark and Klaus both came up with the correct solution.

When I copied/pasted from the email it must have picked up a something extra that made it not work.

I tried it again and it works fine.

Thank you,
Bill Vlahos

> On May 31, 2015, at 9:59 AM, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> --
> Best regards,
> 
> Mark Schonewille
> 
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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"
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> Mark Schonewille
>>> 
>>> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
>>> Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
>>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer
>>> KvK: 50277553
>>> 
>>> Installer Maker for LiveCode:
>>> 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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