Custom property question

[dunbarx]

Always gratifying to know that I need to go to the beginners section now and again.

Why this?

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   set the xyz of me to "XYZ"
   answer the xyz of me --Good, I get "XYZ"
   put 10 into xyz
   answer the xyz of me --Hmmm...empty
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I was about to act like a big shot in another thread, and say that the contents of the variable xyz has nothing at all to do with a custom property named "xyz". For some reason I checked. For some other reason, I was wrong.

Craig Newman