If your variable did not contain the word "field", you could do: put "10:00 AM" into field tfield
or leave the variable as it is and: put "10:00 AM" into field (word 2 to -1 of tfield) Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Howard Bornstein <bornst...@designeq.com>wrote: > I know I've done this before but I can't seem to remember how at this > point. > > I want to make an indirect reference through a variable. For example, I > have a variable, tField, that contains this string: field "Time" of card 1 > > I want to put something into field "Time" via this variable. So I want to > say something like put "10:00 AM" into tField, but rather than have it go > into tField (in which case, tField would contain "10:00 AM") I want it to > go *through* tField so that the value goes into field "Time". > > Any reminders on how to do this? > > -- > Regards, > > Howard Bornstein > ----------------------- > www.designeq.com > _______________________________________________ > 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