losing a varible ... why ?

i am hopeing that you all can help me with this problem. i am trying to get a script to see if a note card is avalible in a prims inventory or not. if it is it sets some stats. if not it sets things to 0. the problem i am having is it seems that i am loseing the string varible for the notecard name.

string filename;

read()
{
    llOwnerSay("attempting to read " + filename + " notecard");
} 


default
{
    state_entry()
        {

            llAllowInventoryDrop(TRUE);   
            string filename = llGetInventoryName(INVENTORY_NOTECARD, 0);
                 if(llGetInventoryNumber(INVENTORY_NOTECARD) == 1) 
                 { 
                    llOwnerSay("I see " + filename + " as a stat card");
                    read();
                    
                 } 
                if(llGetInventoryNumber(INVENTORY_NOTECARD) == 0) 
                 { 
                   llOwnerSay("no stats to load");
                   //nostats();
                 }
        }
         changed(integer mask)
    {
        if(mask & (CHANGED_ALLOWED_DROP | CHANGED_INVENTORY))
            llResetScript();
    }
}

any help would be great thanks

You have two separate variables called filename, one declared as a global up top, and a second in your state_entry. From the looks of your read() function, you want to change "string filename" down in state_entry to just "filename"

and its the simple things that mess us up


thanks loads