[ic] Holding and then retrieving a variable.

Mark Johnson markj@redhat.com
Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:19:43 -0500


[calc] gets interpolated before it is eval'ed. Frankly, I'm surprised
you didn't get a 'bareword' error by not having [item description]
quoted.

[calc]
   ...
   $MyFreeItems .= q{[item description]} . "\n";
   ...
   $Scratch->{myfreeitem} = $MyFreeItems;
[/calc]
 

Glen and Rosanne Eustace wrote:
> 
> I have a some code which includes the following, I thought it used to
> work in MV4 but it certainly doesn't in IC.  How is one supposed to do
> this ?
> 
> [calc]
>    ...
>    $MyFreeItems .= [item description] . "\n";
>    ...
>    [set myfreeitem]$MyFreeItems[/set]
> [/calc]
> 
> in another part of etc/report I had
> [scratch myfreeitem]
> 
> I get the literal '$MyFreeItem' in the order not the list I had build
> up.
> 
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