Peter Haworth wrote: > The dictionary says I can refer to the group created by the group > command by using the last keyword as in "last group". Has anyone > used this successfully?
As the others here have noted, it's possible to create a group such that it won't be ordinally last.
Instead, you can take advantage of a convention the engines uses with reasonable consistency in which the local variable "it" will contain the long ID of a new object immediately after it's been created, e.g.:
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