On Jul 24, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Slava, > > The do command and the value function could be what you are looking for.
And just to be clear on use, it would be like this: put "MyCustomVariable" into tVarToFill put "202 Main Street" into tStreet do "put tStreet into" && tVarToFill put MyCustomVariable --> 202 Main Street Hope this helps, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
