How to get the number of lines of a fld referenced by long ID in a variable.

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> BR wrote:
> but  to be able to address the properties of the object referred to by a variable containing the long ID of an object/
> How do we do that?

  put the long id of fld 1 into fID
  put the short name of fID into sID
  put the number of lines of fld sID