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Re: Copy to list Question
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Re: Copy to list Question


  • Subject: Re: Copy to list Question
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:37:44 -0400

You are trying to dynamically create variable names at runtime- that's
code generation, and it is slow and error-prone, especially in
AppleScript.  Where are these numerically-suffixed variables coming
from?  Can you not just make them a list in the first place?

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Oakley Masten
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi All
> Can this be done?
> It says Var is not defined.
> How do I fix this?
>
> set Var1 to "Cat"
>
> set Var2 to "Dog"
>
> set Var3 to "Horse"
>
> set Var4 to "Bird"
>
> set ListAnimals to {}
>
> repeat with x from 1 to 4
>
> copy (Var & x) to ListAnimals
>
> end repeat
>
> ListAnimals
>
> Thanks
>
> Oakley
>
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