Hi Tab,
I posted the question in the first place so i guess i should explain :).
I'm not neccasarily in a paticular need of it. I was wondering if you could
do it as I could very well use it in the near future, it seems that it could
be useful. I think I see how you can achieve the same result with lists.
Basically it would be like:
-- List of icon id's
gIconIdList = [#English_expanded : "1", #Math_expanded : "2"]
set subject = "English"
set status = "expanded"
getProp(gIconIdList, subject & "_" & status)
That what you were talking about?
Thanks for everyones input on this
- Bill
>Over the years, there have been many requests to do "variable variables",
>that is, to construct a variable name on the fly.
>
>Invariably, the person asking the question is taking the seemingly obvious
>solution to a problem, but usually what really signals is that it is time
>to start learning about lists. I don't know what they're trying to do in
>this particular case, but lists (and property lists) are suited for exactly
>this sort of thing, with only a fraction of the overhead of recompositing
>strings and doing on-the-fly parsing of commands.
>
>- Tab
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