I have come across a puzzling behavior when trying to use the content of a field as parametres in a function, and I am trying to understand why.
I put the following in a field called «test»: 1,2,3,4,5 When I then call the function like this: answer testFunction(field «test»), the paramCount() returns 1 If I use the values directly in the script: answer testFunction(1,2,3,4,5), the paramCount() returns 5 as expected I will also get the expected result if a do the following: put "answer testFunction(" & field «test» & ")" into tScript do tScript I guess the reason for this is that in the last example, LiveCode compiles the content of the variable tScript before execution, and that this turns what is first treated as a single block of text into a list of parametres. The reason why I want to understand what is happening is that I am about to teach my students how to write reusable code that will behave correctly for any number of parametres. So my question is if I am on the right track? Best regards Tore Nilsen _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode