variable trouble

[Andrew Kluthe]

Larry,

I'd try copy and pasting some more of the code around it and we can try and
figure out what you are trying to accomplish.

Andrew
On Sep 24, 2014 2:10 AM, <larry at significantplanet.org> wrote:

> Hi Scott,
> I meant to say "inexplicable to me."
> Your solution works great.
> However, I cannot figure out the next part:
> I want to put the value of thisKey into a variable when it matches.
> So I tried a few iterations of:
>
> put value(thisVar[thisKey]) & space after newVar
>
> but could not get anything to work - with the parenthesis in different
> places.
>
> Do you know the syntax for adding the bracketed thisKey ??
>
> Thanks,
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com>
> To: "LiveCode Mail List" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 12:28 AM
> Subject: Re: variable trouble
>
>
>  Hi Larry:
>>
>> Your situation is very explicable.  In your script you're treating
>> "thisVar" as an array, instead of accessing the array that you put into
>> thisVar.  You're trying to use one variable to refer to another.
>>
>> If I understand the result you want, one way would be to use the value
>> function, to retrieve the data of the array stored in thisVar:
>>
>> put "wgList0" & N into thisVar
>>
>> put the keys of value(thisVar) into theseKeys
>>
>>
>> Hope this works for you.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Scott Rossi
>> Creative Director
>> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/23/14 11:07 PM, "larry at significantplanet.org"
>> <larry at significantplanet.org> wrote:
>>
>>  Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm using 6.6.3 on Windows XP.
>>>
>>> This line of code works just fine:
>>> put the keys of wgList03 into theseKeys
>>>
>>> but the following lines of code do NOT work: (where N is 3)  -- and yes,
>>> it IS a ZERO after wgList
>>>
>>> put "wgList0" & N into thisVar
>>>
>>> put the keys of thisVar into theseKeys
>>>
>>> To me, this is just inexplicable and very frustrating.  Any help will be
>>> greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Larry
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