[Tuglist] Variable Assignments in LaTeX

[Manoj K N]

Hello.

How does one assign the value of a counter to a variable? I want
\s@vefignum to take the value of \c@figure, change \c@figure to a new
value,  and later to re-assign the value \s@vefignum of \c@figure. I tried
the following piece of LaTeX code:

\makeatletter\newcount\s@vefignum\s@vefignum\c@figure
.....
\c@figure\s@vefignum\makeatother

This does not seem to work; I am getting an error 

!Missing number, treated as zero.


How do I correct this?

Thanks.
Manoj.

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