My apologies. Mark and Klaus both came up with the correct solution. When I copied/pasted from the email it must have picked up a something extra that made it not work.
I tried it again and it works fine. Thank you, Bill Vlahos > On May 31, 2015, at 9:59 AM, Mark Schonewille > <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > "Doesn't like" is far from informative. Could you describe the unwanted > behaviour and include the exact text of any error messages you get? > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > KvK: 50277553 > > Installer Maker for LiveCode: > http://qery.us/468 > > Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" > http://qery.us/3fi > > LiveCode on Facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ > > On 5/31/2015 18:55, Bill Vlahos wrote: >> Unfortunately neither of these suggestions work. LiveCode doesn’t like the >> parenthesis. >> >> I also tried using quote & syntax and that didn’t work either. >> >> Bill >> >>> On May 31, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Mark Schonewille >>> <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: >>> >>> Bill, >>> >>> It doesn't work because LiveCode first parses "url [the url]" and then >>> concatenates the subsequent strings. Try using parentheses: >>> >>> put "805" into vAC >>> put URL >>> ("http://www.webservicex.net/uszip.asmx/GetInfoByAreaCode?USAreaCode=" & >>> vAC) && "HTTP/1.1" >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Mark Schonewille >>> >>> Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering >>> Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com >>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer >>> KvK: 50277553 >>> >>> Installer Maker for LiveCode: >>> http://qery.us/468 >>> >>> Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" >>> http://qery.us/3fi >>> >>> LiveCode on Facebook: >>> https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ >>> >>> On 5/31/2015 18:29, Bill Vlahos wrote: >>>> put "805" into vAC >>>> put >>>> URL"http://www.webservicex.net/uszip.asmx/GetInfoByAreaCode?USAreaCode=" >>>> & vAC && "HTTP/1.1" >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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