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Beginner Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Sweden

Like the topic says, I am having problems with #addkey.
If you create a data record in global, then use #addkey, it will erase anything within the record.
Atm I haft to pull down my record from global to local settings using #VAR, then adjust all records accordingly, then use #GVAR to replace the old global data record.

Sure it's possible to use %addkey but it a lot slower then #addkey.

I was going to bug report this but I thought i'd post here first, see if anyone had this problem before and solved it.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

This sounds way too much like a different problem, so rather than going into ZMud and checking it out when I should be heading off to bed I'll just ask a stupid question (stupid, assuming you're already aware of this issue):

Are you using #ADDKEY @varname keyname keyvalue or #ADDKEY varname keyname keyvalue?

Anytime you use #command @varname to assign data to a variable it will overwrite the old contents with the new contents. Commands that don't do assignment will usually try to reference a variable with the name of "@varname", which will likely not exist. This is called indirect referencing.

EDIT: added to last paragraph.

Beginner Joined: 10 Feb 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Sweden

I am using #ADDKEY varname keyname value or #ADDKEY varname {keyname1=value|keyname2=value}, depending on the situation, but neither work.

I cannot think of any reason why this doesnt work when #ADDITEM work with global varibles. It would really speed things up for me if it did work. As I store a lot of data in global records, prompt etc.