Keeping list of bets

I need to keep a variable with the names of horses that I bet on. I was using 'set variable' set to storednames+sel_name every time a new horse is added. I am then using FIND("sel_name", "storednames") to see if a bet has been made, (if result is >0). However I am encountering a problem with spaces being removed from the horses name when adding it to the variable but not when using sel_name in the FIND expression and thus the name is not found. Can you offer any suggestions? Thanks

Hi
string variables should be in quotation marks, use "sel_name" when adding to your user variable.

Sadly that doesn't solve the problem. I have set up a test as follows:

Trigger A
- set user variable myvar myvar+"sel_name"
- set user variable myvarset 1

Trigger B
Conditions myvarset is equal to 1
- set user variable myvarposition FIND("sel_name", "myvar")

Both selections set to Favourite

Results using View User Variables
myvar=myvar+"Simpson"+"Simpson" (Not sure why the name is added twice)
myvarset=1
myvarposition=FIND("Simpson","myvar+"Simpson"+"Simpson"") (i.e. doesn't compute)

Hello!

The program is not made to allow the concatenation of strings in that way. Are you tring to add another string to the selection's name?

I'm trying to keep a list of horses that a particular trigger has placed a bet on. Other triggers can also place bets on the same horse. I am doing this by adding the horses name to a string when a bet is placed on it. It was working but only if there were no spaces in the horses name. Maybe you can suggest a better way of achieving this.

Thanks

There is a much simple way of doing this. Check this condition where you need to find out whether a particular trigger has been executed on the selection:

Trigger [trigger name] Number of executions per selection is greater than 0

Thanks Oxa - I'll give it a go

Keeping list of bets

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