* Census indexing by year

[DavidNewton]

I suspect this is a question that has been answered but I couldn't find an answer. I was looking for the existence of a census event of a particular year but the year is the value of a variable and that apparently does not work. An example:

pi=fhNewItemPtr()
picen=fhNewItemPtr()
pi:MoveToRecordById('INDI',8)
x=1891
picen:MoveTo(pi,'~.CENS[year=1891]')
print(fhGetDisplayText(picen))
picen:MoveTo(pi,'~.CENS[year=x]')
print(fhGetDisplayText(picen))

The first method putting the year as a constant returns the census summary, but the second method with a variable yields a null picen
Is this by design?

David
(still using v6.2)

[Jane]

Well you told it to use year x so I am not surprised.

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picen:MoveTo(pi,'~.CENS[year=x]')

You need to build the string it will not magically spot you mean x is a variable.

[jelv]

In case you don't get what Jane is saying (and for anyone else reading this topic):

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picen:MoveTo(pi,'~.CENS[year=' .. x .. ']')

works.

[DavidNewton]

Thank you for the clarification jelv. As you surmised I did not get what Jane was saying.

David