Re: Basic Variables (was Re: FLASH: RE:random variable typing)

[John Croteau]

Hi Nerotik,


First, hope you are feeling better.


> Would not this:

> Set Variable: "variableName"="whatever"

> return the plain text "whatever" if it was called to do so ?

Only if it was asked to return a string. In the above expression

whatever is saved in variableName regardless of what is already in

variableName or the variable whatever.


But the string whatever is not neccessarily what the variable

variableName would return, remember Flash is typeless.


In the following variableName will return whatever:

Set Variable: "newName" = variableName & " and whoever"

The whole expression above returns --> whatever and whoever.


In a text field with the varable name set as variableName, whatever will

be displayed.


But in the following the same variableName will return zero:

Set Variable: "newName" = variableName + 22


It's not much of a number and will be evaluated as zippo, nada, NOTHING

a big zero...

So

Set Variable: "newName" = variableName + 22

Returns 22.............Any string that has any non-numeric characters is

evaluated as the number zero.


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