i don't understand why it gives me an error

[Duoquote]

I am trying to put this text file:

hello
this
is
---
a
test

into pages::%pagecount% variable where "---" means a new page but it's not working. I am curious about whether we can put %variable% in another {variable::%variable%} or not.

on load:
    set {text::*} to file contents of "help/texts.txt"
    set {pagecount} to 1
    loop {text::*}:
        if {text::%loop-index%} is "---":
            set {page::%pagecount%} to join {thiss::*} with "%newline%"
            set {thiss::*} to ""
            add 1 to {pagecount}
        else:
            add {text::%loop-index%} to {thiss::*}

 

[Donut]

why are you doing {text::%loop-index%} you can just use loop-value

 

[Duoquote]

This is the last state of the code:

on load:
    set {text::*} to file contents of "help/texts.txt"
    set {pagecount} to 1
    loop {text::*}:
        if loop-value is "---":
            set {page::%pagecount%} to join {thiss::*} with "%newline%"
            set {thiss::*} to ""
            add 1 to {pagecount}
        else:
            add loop-value to {thiss::*}

I am getting this error:

 

[Donut]

you forgot the brackets in the variable on line 6 %{pagecount}%

 

[Duoquote]

;_; That fixed it but got another problem:

on load:
    set {text::*} to file contents of "help/texts.txt"
    set {pagecount} to 0
    loop {text::*}:
        if loop-value is "---":
            set {page::%{pagecount}%} to join {thiss::*} with "%newline%"
            set {thiss::*} to ""
            add 1 to {pagecount}
        else:
            add loop-value to {thiss::*}