Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!fernwood!portal!apple!jdevoto
From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Dynamic variable names
Message-ID: <40123@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 90 10:15:33 GMT
References: <3158@oakhill.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <3158@oakhill.UUCP> tomj@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Johnson) writes:
>	do "put item x of p" & y & " into z"
>	(note that the space here   ^ is required for the parser)

The && operator concatenates with a space, so you can substitute
        do "put item x of p" && y && "into z"
for the above. Not functionally different from putting a space in the
literal, but it sometimes looks a little neater & is easier to read.

>Now for another small problem.
>[...]
>What I CAN'T get to work is this - return(x & "," & y)

(By the way, you don't need to enclose the return value expression in
parens.)

This works fine for me. I'm correct in assuming that x and y are variables
you've defined previously? Maybe you could post or mail additional information
about the script. What version of HyperCard are you using?
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