Hi Richard, Here's an example:
put "some text" into myVar put "myVar" into myVarName do "put" && myVarName && "into myLastVar" put myLastVar --> some text -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour spaces. http://www.color-converter.com On 14 jun 2012, at 17:02, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > It seems to me, that back in the mists of time, I used a variable to > hold the name of another variable in hypercard and supercard 1.5. > > Is this possible? Or is it my memory? > > So I would put "fred" into theVar, and use > > put theVar to get the value of Fred. > > but this doesn't seem to work > > > > -- > The Hawkins Law Firm > Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > hawkinslawf...@gmail.com > 3025 S. Maryland Parkway > Suite A > Las Vegas, NV 89109 > _______________________________________________ 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