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I did a quick search in the forums and didnt notice anyone asking this specific question. Sorry if it was asked before. I want to know if it's possible to refer to placeholder controls using variable ...

Knowing how to use Excel's variables gives you the ability to make your formulas – and by extension the spreadsheets containing those formulas – much easier to understand. For example, the formula ...

Variables hold a wide variety of information temporarily. The JavaScript data types that can be stored in a variable include: JavaScript variables can hold a few other kinds of data, but these are by ...

We have all heard that good variable names are important for creating readable programs — advice that will serve you well when you come back to your code two years later, or even twenty. Sometimes, ...

We often read (including in the book Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper) that if we pass variable names as parameters to functions, they will be treated as string literals and cannot be ...