On May 24, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a repeat loop with tCycle = 1 to 10 and for each repeat, I
need to put something into a new variable, specific to the
particular cycle - tResultCycle1, tResultCycle2... tResultCycle10.
How does one script the creation of a unique variable for each loop,
as LiveCode doesn't seem to like the attempted simple variable name
concatenation in...
put "something" into tResult & tCycle
I'm guessing I need to define the variable's name before using it,
but 'variableNames' doesn't seem to fit the bill and as the
dictionary doesn't even have an entry for 'variable' (so they're
obviously not important!), I'm struggling to find any seed terms to
search the list archives.
Then again, maybe I'm missing something fundamental here - my
default state with LiveCode, it seems! :-)
The 'do' command is the common way to do this
repeat with k = 1 to 10
-- build thisVar for this loop
do "put thisVar into newVar" & k
end repeat
You can also use
line k of fld storageFld
or
line k of aggregateVar
or
set the k of this card to thisVar
or
as you have done, use a multi dimensional array
Minor advantage to custom props is they can be stored in the stack
file. This is good for bulding things like a list of path names and
ftp site URLs that need to be kept with the stack and are not part of
user data or preferences.
Hope this helps
Jim Ault
Las Vegas
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