Hi Pete,
Can you use the short id?
put the short id of fld "text" into x
put "deux" into word 2 of fld x
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On 4/19/2015 22:20, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
So I have a field, let's say field "text", with the contents "one two three
four".
if I do this:
put the long id of fld "text" into fRef
put "deux" into word 2 of fRef
it puts "deux" into word 2 of "field id 1022 of stack…" and doesn't resolve
fRef as a field reference.
But if I do:
put the text of fRef into tText
it *does* resolve fRef as a field reference, as I would expect. It appears that
the engine only resolves these references when the context/syntax indicates
that it should expect an object reference, and not otherwise.
Is there any way I can put "deux" into word 2 of the field without jumping
through hoops, like
put "deux" into newWord
do "put newWord into word two of" && fRef
??
I don't want to do:
put the text of fRef into tText
put "deux" into word 2 of tText
set the text of fRef to tText
because the field may contain formatted text that I want to preserve.
ideas? or am I stuck with hoops?
-- Peter
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