System Message Box ???

Question

I'm trying to set up a system message box that comes up after
a user enters in some text. If what they typed in equals a stored
system variable, then it comes up to warn them. Is there a way to
have the message box display a variable. I want it to say, "Sorry,
the term {system variable entered by user} already exists". I've
tried playing around with the equals sign, quotation marks,
brackets etc, but can't get it to work.
Any suggestions would be awesome, thanks

Answer 1

Chris's reply is correct and pretty much the only way to do
it.
If your user enters a term, like 'happy go lucky', where are
you storing
that term?
Whatever variable stores that term is what needs to come
between the
^carats^ to concatenate it to the rest of "the text"
"Sorry, the term "^your_variable^" already exists"
Erik
Rodimus_Prime wrote:
> Maybe I used the wrong words. I would like the message
box to display a user created variable in it's text. Something
like, "happy go lucky", that was created by the user.
Erik Lord
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