appending text to variables

Does anyone know a way that I can set and then append a variable with the contents of text boxes, without hard coding the contents of the box into the variable, as the user moves through individual pages.What I mean is this; if on page one there is a text box and the variable is then set to contain the contents of that text box. On the next page the same variable is modified to include (append) the contents of the text box on that page and so forth.My goal is to be able to capture the question text boxes, first setting a variable value and then appending the contents of the same variable from one question (page) to the next.I am trying to duplicate the email test results that a quiz will do when setup properly. We are using Java pages so the email function does not work. If I can get the content of the text boxes I can send that out to a cgi script. But I need some way of getting the information out of Lectora.