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From: cs162fed@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU (Grobbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hypercard question
Message-ID: <779@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 01:14:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcc18.779
Posted: Fri Oct  9 01:14:33 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Oct-87 12:37:25 EDT
References: <29942@sun.uucp> <774@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU> <1098@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Reply-To: cs162fed@sdcc18.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Grobbins)
Organization: U.C. San Diego
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Keywords: HyperTalk concatenation frustration

In article <1098@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> freedman@calgary.UUCP (Dan Freedman) writes:
>In article <774@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU>, cs162fed@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU (Grobbins) writes:
>> I'm trying to go to cards by a name composed of a string constant
>> and a variable number, as in   go to card "Sheetnum"&snum
>> but Hypercard usually fails to go to the proper, or any, card.
>
>Hmm, I went to the home stack, and tried the following:
>	go to card "hom" & e
>(note the spacing).  It worked.  ...  Could it be that you are having
>problems because of the way you are spacing your arguments?  
>What do you mean when you say that HyperCard "usually" fails?  

I said 'usually' because it seemed intermittent, and I was ashamed to
admit I hadn't tracked it down.

I went to the problematic stack, put spaces before & after the
ampersand, and it worked perfectly.  I took away the spaces before
and after the &, and it still worked.  Aargh!  It might be
a problem with spacing around the ampersand, but I haven't been able
to prove that to myself.  Frustration city.

I hope you've found the problem for me, Dan...  I'll let you know if
I determine anything more conclusive.  Has anyone else run into this 
problem or other seemingly intermittent bugs in HyperTalk?


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