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Posted: **Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:14 pm**

I just can't get this to work.

I'm trying to get the contents of a datagrid cell from a column, where I use a variable to define the actual column.

This is the problem I'm having:

put 2 into tnumbera
put quote & "Col" & tnumbera & quote into tcola
put theDataA[tcola]

theDataA is the line data of a datagrid

If I use put theDataA["Col2"] ..... it returns the right value

but if I use put theDataA[tcola] ....... it doesn't return anything

Any idea what I am doing wrong ?

Kev

Posted: **Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:54 pm**

DukeUK wrote:I just can't get this to work.

I'm trying to get the contents of a datagrid cell from a column, where I use a variable to define the actual column.

This is the problem I'm having:

put 2 into tnumbera
put quote & "Col" & tnumbera & quote into tcola
put theDataA[tcola]

theDataA is the line data of a datagrid

If I use put theDataA["Col2"] ..... it returns the right value

but if I use put theDataA[tcola] ....... it doesn't return anything

Any idea what I am doing wrong ?

Hi Kev,

I think the problem should be on the line:

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put quote & "Col" & tnumbera & quote into tcola

Col2 is the name of the column in the datagrid. By quoting tcola, you will search for a column "Col2" in the datagrid. That's a bit different.

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put 2 into tnumbera
put "Col" & tnumbera into tcola
put theDataA[tcola]

Note the existence of the GetDataOfLine or GetDataOfIndex functions in the datagrid API, for getting the content of a cell:
http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/d ... or-Column-

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:56 pm**

Many thanks

Yes without the quotes it all works fine.

Kev

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