Subject Re: do variable
From Charlie <tm@tc.com>
Date Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:50:28 -0500
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

Hi Ken... Thanks... I don't get an error message but more or less nothing happens.  The menu doesn't open!!

Ken Mayer Wrote:

> On 2/25/2020 2:30 PM, Charlie wrote:
> > HI.. I've tried a bunch of combinations and just can't get this to work.  I am trying to open menus.mnu as a variable.  Can anyone help?
> >
> > _app.menu = "menus.wfm"
> > "do '&_app.menu'"  // I know this is wrong and have tried many variations on this theme!!!
> >
>
> Try:
>
> // assign the whole command to a variable:
> cmd = "do "+_app.menu
> // execute the command:
> &cmd.
>
> Ken
>
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