Variable holding a chunk

[Bill Marriott]

I personally always "live" in the dictionary. It has a field at the top 
which filters stuff out for you as you type. For this specific function, I 
would probably type in "evaluate" because I want Rev to "evaluate" the chunk 
expression rather than to use it as a literal string. This gives you the 
merge() function, which isn't what you're looking for, but the value 
function is mentioned under the "See Also:" heading.

Incidentally, the merge() function works like mail merge in a word 
processor, but with expressions.

So,

put merge("line 2 of fld 1") gives you:
line 2 of fld 1

but
put merge("[[line 2 of fld 1]]") gives you:
Bob

eventually, I just learned that "the value of" was what I wanted and haven't 
had to remember any tricks.

I am not sure why "evaluate" doesn't also return the value function; it 
probably should.

"Jim Carwardine" 
<JimCarwardine at OwnYourFuture-net.com> wrote in 
message news:C1C4ABBA.9310%JimCarwardine at OwnYourFuture-net.com...
> Hi Bill... I have 2.7.4 on MacIntel... Jim
>
>
> on 1/5/07 6:03 PM, Bill Marriott wrote:
>
>> you have a chunk *expression* in myvar :)
>>
>> put the value of myVar
>>
>> will work. As for the help file, what version of Rev do you have?