Gotcha’s When Assigning and Using Variables
by Andy Frazier
“Learn from the master, you must!”
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If you do any development outside of FileMaker Pro (and trust me, if only to learn different ways of approaching problems, you really should), you know that there’s a “gotcha” when assigning and using variables.
In several languages, you can assign a variable like this:
$myvariable = ‘my value'
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