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From: Susan.A.Tenney@dartmouth.edu (Susan A. Tenney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Variables in a list?
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.145428.13626@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 14:54:28 GMT
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In article <4165@ac.dal.ca>
ireland@ac.dal.ca writes:

> Can variables be put into a list and then referred to as items in that
> list? I'd like to be able to do the following:
> 
> on foobar
>   global G1,G2,G3
>   put "G1,G2,G3" into myList
>   put 77 into item 2 of myList
> end foobar
> 
> I'd like the value of G2 to be set to 77. Unfortunately, all the above
> does is replace G2 with 77 in myList. Being able to do something like
> this would be an elegant solution to a scripting problem I have.
> Anyone know how to do something like this?

Try this:

on foobar
  global G1,G2,G3
  put "G1,G2,G3" into myList
  do "put 77 into" && item 2 of myList
end foobar

The "do" command executes "put 77 into G2".

Susan Tenney
Dartmouth College Computing Services