Cowboy Coder

For text string building I am very fond of php’s interpolate feature:

# my variable
$name = "Joe Bob";
# my command
$my_sentence = "Hello {$name}!";

In 4D the same can be accomplished with text objects.

`have a table [Table]full_name
` this is the typed string for the text
` notice the "<" and ">" enclosing the field reference
vt_object:="Hello <[Table]full_name>!"
` outputs "Hello Joe Bob!" assuming that was what was loaded in the record

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