Variable-driven if statement

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#1

Kind of bizarre but I’m going to ask anyways…obviously I have incorrect syntax but is there a way to echo out the contents of a variable that will build out part of an if statement?

Logic example:

set var1 to " or equal to 2"

if 1 is less than & var1 & then
	log "go!"
end if

Thanks

#2

Hi,

there is a way, but it’s generally not recommended.
Second level evaluation is quite expensive because it creates a bunch of overhead


set var1 to " or equal to 2"

run script "1 is less than" & var1
if result then
	log "go!"
end if
#3

Hmm ya that probably won’t do it for me.

Does Applescript have ternary operators? In PHP, I could do something like this:

Which would give me “Hello World. Now Goodbye”.

Thanks for the response.

#4

PHP code is interpreted at runtime, AppleScript code must be compiled before running the script

#5

Oh ya, that’s true. Thank you for the help.

#6

Compile or run time has nothing to with it.

Applescript doesn’t support conditional expressions; conditional statements only.
Applescript doesn’t support ternary operations; binary only