[NTLK] Help with a script!

From: Jaime Méndez (servafin_at_prodigy.net.mx)
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 11:08:40 PDT

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Hi,

Could anybody help me with this?

I wat to get an entry slot value in a soup. I have the slot name in a
varible: slotName:="name". The entry namy is myEntry.

What I do is de following:

for each item, value in myEntry do
   if strEqual(item&"", slotName) then myValue:=value;

It compares the string value of each slot symbol in myEntry with the string
value of the vaiable slotName.

It works, I do get the slot value in myValue.

The question:

How do I change the slot value of myEntry?

The following did not work:

for each item, value in myEntry do
   if strEqual(item&"", slotName) then
      begin
         value:= otherValue;
         EntryChangeXmit(myEntry,nil);
      end;

What am I doing wrong?

I can not do this:

myEntry.slotName:=otherValue;
EntryChangeXmit(myEntry,nil);

because slotName is a string not a symbol.

Thanks,

Jaime Méndez.

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