Field calculations

[Vaughn Clement]

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On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Vaughn,
>
> put fld 1 + fld 2 into fld 3
> put fld "bla" + fld "foo" into fld "bar"
> etc.
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> On 9/11/2013 19:26, Vaughn Clement wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> After entirely to many hours of research trying to get a reference
>> location
>> for scripting simple field calculations, and also testing scripts I need
>> some veteran help.
>>
>> I am a database developer so I am new to LiveCode. I used the dictionary
>> trying to do the following but the Hypertalk script approach is not clear.
>>
>> I simply want to take one field and use a math operator to say add two
>> fields together and put the result into a third field.
>>
>> Example: Loan amount + loan fees = Sum amount of loan
>>
>> I might want to add 3 fields together and then subtract a different field
>> from the sum of the 3 fields.
>>
>> Or take a loan percentage * the Loan amount to get the amount of interest
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Vaughn Clement
>>
>>
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