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From: baum@Apple.COM (Allen J. Baum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: help with choose command
Message-ID: <33700@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Aug 89 17:10:48 GMT
References: <Aug.1.15.59.20.1989.6372@galaxy.rutgers.edu> <9733@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: baum@apple.UUCP (Allen Baum)
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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>In article blahblahblah (Scott Englander) report on how to choose with a
variable:
>>
>>    I want to use the choose command with info read from a field. Something 
>>    like:
>>    
>>       choose field 1 tool
>
>You need to use the "do" command.  First assemble your command string.
>Then "do" the string:
>
>put "choose " & field 1 && "tool" into cmdstr
>do cmdstr

So, what are the rules that determine when a "Do" is necessary, and when a
variable can simply be used?

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