sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Is there a way to reference a variable through another variable in >Transcript? >IOW, I'd like to do something like this: > >Repeat with i = 1 to 5 > put "List"&i into theList > put i into value(theList) >end repeat > >The idea is that I construct 5 variables, named list1, list2, list3, >list4, and list5 in the variable theList. Then I put a value in each of >these variables through the referencing variable (theList). > >The Value function is sort of what I have in mind (it first evaluates the >expression) but, of course, it doesn't work in this fashion. Is there >another way to do this (am I missing something obvious) or is this not >possible in Transcript? Not sure about Transcript, but in HyperTalk, the DO keyword does what you want:
repeat with K1 = 1 to (the number of items in ListOfVariables) do ("put item K1 of TheData into" && item K1 of ListOfVariables) end repeat Hope this helps... _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution