Now I get "Abc"45"123(def)" in tTest. I'm not sure what you are expecting, but that is what is getting passed to value(). If you asked me to resolve that, I would probably toss a few errors, not to mention a few brews, back myself.
Bob S > On Oct 26, 2015, at 08:48 , Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > But that's not quite what I'm looking at here. > > put quote & "Abc" & quote & 45 & quote & "123(def)" & quote into tTest > > > gives the type of string I'm looking at. That is, 123(def) is surrounded > by quotes *in the string* being fed to value, and therefore should be > treated as a literal, shouldn't it? > > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. _______________________________________________ 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