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From: stone@hydra.unm.edu (Andrew Stone CS.DEPT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: how to get field from specific card
Keywords: use full 'path'
Message-ID: <5090@charon.unm.edu>
Date: 15 May 89 14:57:34 GMT
References: <3028@viscous.sco.COM> <1974@ur-cc.UUCP>
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In article <1974@ur-cc.UUCP> aisl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Landry) writes:
>In article <3028@viscous.sco.COM> jamesm@sco.COM (James M. Moore) writes:
>>What's the syntax for getting a field from a specific named card?
>
>I don't think that there is currently any way to do this other than to go to
>that card.  

Whoaaa! You can simply use the entire container description and do it in place:

put fld "myField" of cd "thatOtherFarAwayCd" into mycontainer

Sometimes, on long, convoluted expressions, such as line i of fld j of cd k of 
bg l, you can aid HyperCard's parser by using parens to logically define your
expression. This, and using quotes, has saved me numerous times.

andrew

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