Why would you want to? Why not just use the array variables “as is”? What you are doing seems to me to be something like “put a into b” and then not modifying a or b.
In your example, do something like: put (theList[theVar] contains “cat page”) into isTrue Bob On Mar 15, 2014, at 13:04 , Dr. Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a "decent" way to load variables from an array without "do" or a > long list of commands? > > If theList[pageName] is "cat page" and so forth, I can > > repeat for each word theVar in "pageName pageHeight pageWidth" > do "put " & theList[theVar] & " into " & theVar > end repeat > > but this will cause a slew of compiles. > > I could also rattle off the list, but this is more maintainable. > > Is there a better way to do this? > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
