Hi,

I'm having trouble figuring out why ValueCount always return 1 when I trying to count the number of values in a repeating variable.

Here's is my test

   Set variable [$test; Value:1]

   Set variable [$test[2]; Value:2]

   Show Custom Dialog ["Test"; ValueCount($test)]

I'm sure the answer is very simple, but it's just not coming up right now...

See here:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/250828/

So what you are saying is that there is no way we can use variables as arrays?

The only work around I found was concatening the same variable with a ¶ between each values.

   Set Variable [$test; Value:1]

   Set Variable [$test; $test & "¶" & 2]

   Show Custom Dialog ["Test"; ValueCount($test)]

This is a pretty awkward method don't you think so?

Edited June 5, 200718 yr by Guest

So what you are saying is that there is no way we can use variables as arrays?

Sort of. I am saying they ARE NOT arrays.

This is a pretty awkward method don't you think so?

Hard to say without knowing what you're trying to do.

Here is a print screen of my script

I'm trying to print multiple layout in a single PDF file using PDFTK.

What I need is to merge all the filenames from results of different scripts. This way I can create the required parameters for PDFTK.

Actually, I used the workaround, but I would have prefered to used a more standard way to develop.

I see in your script that a single variable holds multiple values. I think that's how I would it, too.