On 5/24/00 12:56 PM, Scott Raney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Your original post was:
> In HyperCard, the value of any phrase in quotes returns the entire
> phrase. In MetaCard, this:
>
> the value of "my dog"
>
> returns "my". Is this right? What are the rules?
>
> In this case, "my dog" might look like a quoted string, but in fact
> it's not by the time it gets to the value function. To pass value a
> quoted string, you would have to do:
> the value of quote & "my dog" & quote
>
> And as for the problem getting the last item as a unit, neither
> MetaTalk or HyperTalk can get you that because they don't pay
> attention to quotation marks when delimiting item chunks.
Pasting this into the HyperCard message box:
the value of "my dog"
yields this result:
my dog
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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