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Using variables

Macro language has variables, for temporarily storing and manipulating information. Variables can be of various types including objects and arrays. Variables are named with a dollar sign ($) followed by an identifier. The valid characters in the variable name are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and underscore (_). Following macro demonstrate use of variables to store the list of cells in a page and to store the text of the first cell to fill the rest of the cells with:

$Cells = QueryObjects("Cell", GetCurrentPage()) $i = 0 ForEach ($Cell in $Cells) If ($i == 0) $TextOfFirstCell = $Cell.text Else $Cell.text = $TextOfFirstCell $i += 1

Here $Cells, $Cell, $i, $TextOfFirstCell are all variables storing an array of Cell objects, a Cell object, an integer, and a string respectively.