Hi Slava, The do command and the value function could be what you are looking for.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 What does that error mean? Buy LiveCodeErrors for iPhone now http://qery.us/v4 A must-have for LiveCode programmers. On 24 jul 2011, at 18:10, Slava Paperno wrote: > I'm looking for the LC equivalent to the JavaScript eval() function. For > example, if I have a variable called "tAddress" and I want an LC statement > to assign a value to it, I'd like to say something like put "202 Main > Street" into eval("tAddress"). > > That may sound silly because if I, the programmer, know the name of the > variable, I should say put "202 Main Street" into tAddress. But I don't know > the name of the variable because it will be generated by a handler. For > example, if my handler reads a name-value pair from some file: > > LastKnownAddress="202 Main Street" > > then I want to create a variable called LastKnownAddress and set its value > to "202 Main Street". > > In JS, I would use eval(). What can I use in LC? It's hard to find things > like that in the docs when you don't know what they are called. > > Thanks! > > Slava > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
