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Beginner Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 16 Location: USA

What I want is a datarecord variable that has a stringlist as each key's %val

For example
#VAR enemiesfound {Titan[]South Karr Street|Lyra[]Byron Edmund Square|Estarr}

So I used the following:

#loopdb @enemiesfound {#additem enemiesfound.%i PLACENAME}

But then I get periods in my values, like so

Titan: South Karr Street..|Lyra.|PLACENAME.|PLACENAME.|PLACENAME
Byron: Edmund Square..|Estarr.|PLACENAME.|PLACENAME.|PLACENAME

How can I fix this?

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

You might have luck with using {} or quotes around %i, but if that doesn't work you can use the old standby of #ADDKEY. #ADDKEY works a little differently than #ADDITEM in that it replaces the value instead of adding to it. Therefore, when adding a new value to whatever already exists you need to also use %db() and %concat() to access the current value:

#addkey DaterecordVariable FieldName %concat(%db(@datarecordvariable, fieldname),"|", your new thing here, either a variable name or a string contained in quotes)