Referencing a variable?

[Dan Shafer]

Not sure exactly what you're trying to do (or why) but check out the  
value function in the docs.

For a simple example:

put 42 into x
put "x" into buffer1
put value(buffer1)

produces 42 as a result.

Is that what you wanted to do?


On Nov 27, 2005, at 5:08 PM, Ian Leigh wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I would like to do the following:
>
> Put a variable name into another buffer variable.
> Reference the actual variable but using the buffer variable.
>
> So I only have the name of the variable in the buffer but I want to  
> put a value into the actual variable only by using the variable  
> name which is stored in the buffer.
>
> Does this make sense and can it be done? I thought simply :
>
> put 123 into "buffer"
>
> might work but it doesn't work that way. I have also tried various  
> adds and used the value command too but I can't seem to figure it  
> out. Any insight would be appreciated.
>
> Cheers.
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