calling variables

[Guest]

Hi,

Could someone please tell me why the follwoing code won't work:

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str num
num="No#4*"

MSHTML.IHTMLElement el=htm("TD" "num" "" " Internet Explorer" 0 3 0x21 31536000)

str s1=el.innerText
s1.setclip

out s1

The code below does work fine, but I would like to do it the way in the first code (if that makes sense):

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MSHTML.IHTMLElement el=htm("TD" "No#4*" "" " Internet Explorer" 0 3 0x21 31536000)

str s1=el.innerText
s1.setclip

out s1

Thanks.

[Gintaras]

Remove quotes from num.

MSHTML.IHTMLElement el=htm("TD" num ...

To use a variable in a dialog, enclose its name in parentheses, eg (num). Then QM will know that you want to use a variable, and will not add "". Parentheses are not needed for numeric values.

[Guest]

Thanks Gintaras, I am a little closer to achieving what I want to do. Although I can't work out why the following code still won't work:

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str num1
num1="4*"

str num
num="No#"(num1)

out num

[Guest]

Gintaras, I managed to do what I wanted with following code, but is it the correct way?

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str num1
num1="4*"
  
str num
num="No#"

num + num1

out num

Edit:

I think I may have found a bug, because the following code spits out an 8 digit number (always starting with "2"), depending on how you do it i.e. num + num1 or num+num1 etc.:

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str num1
num1="4"

str num
num="No#"

str num2
num2=num + num1

out num2

Just thought I'd let you know because it seems strange.

[Gintaras]

In QM, s1=s2+s3 is not used to join strings. Instead, use s1.from(s2 s3). Read more in Help.