Josh,
This is indeed surprising, but my guess is that there's some logic behind : in your first example, you concatenate 2 strings, and the target of the line is a fld, so Rev considers that a string needs to be put into a fld... IOW the "string" attribute remains... in example 2, you're dealing straight with a variable content, which means that the "dtring" attribute has disapeared somewhere along the way... and in that case, Rev deals with the variable content which happens to be a path... This is my best explanation so far... JB > I'm going to ask some dumb questions, I am still fuzzy on paths and > some basic variable issues: > > After this: > > answer file "locate the .htm file for me please" as sheet > put it into htmPathFile > > if i put: > > put URL "file:" & htmPathFile into fld "htm" > > this results in the path & filename going in the field, not the > contents of the file. > > ---- > > 2. > > but this: > > put "file:" & htmPathFile into tFile > put URL tFile into fld "htm" > > results in the actual text content of that file being put in. > > ---- > > I don't understand why they are different?!? > ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution