Hi I've got an answer for you.
>> num: ask "Car number please?" Car number please?3 == "3" >> ChosenCar: get to-word join "car" num >> chosencar/model == "Riviera" >> Patrick PS: I learned this method from Ingo Hohmann from the rebol-list a few month ago. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Middleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 8:52 PM Subject: [REBOL] An object by another name > Let's say I have the following: > > car: make object! [ > make: "Ford" > model: "Custom 500" > color: white > ] > > car1: make car [ > model: "Escort" > color: red > ] > > car2: make car [ > model: "Taurus" > color: blue > ] > > car3: make car [ > make: "Buick" > model: "Riviera" > color: silver > ] > > And assume that my REBOL program asks the user the to enter a number > between 1 and 3 and that I save the response in something called car-choice. > > How can I "combine" (probably a bad choice of terminology) the value "car" > and the user's response so that I end up with a value I can use to refer to > the proper object. In other words, if the user enters "2", I want to be > able to do something like: > > car-chosen: car2 [I know I can't just "join" the two values to create > a pointer to car2] > > so that later in the script I can refer to the variables within car-chosen as > > print car-chosen/model > > which should display "Taurus". > > > - martin > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.