There are some functions which are provied by JMeter. If you are a green hand to JMeter, I think this page will give you a suprise.
1. _BenShell, you can use the function to do some simple caculation. For example:
${__BeanShell(${partS2}+${palletS})}
partS2 is a variable, and palletS is the variable too. If you use ${partS2}+${palletS} in your test script, this will be taken as a string "${partS2}+${palletS}".
If you take ${__BeanShell(${partS2}+${palletS})} as a variable in your test script, this will return the sum of partS2 and palletS.
2. _V, you can take this function to contact the string. For example:
There are some variables: locCode_1,locCode_2, locCode_3, locCode_4.....
And there is a counter:1,2,3,4,5........
Now you want to use different locCode in different counter.
So you should group the locCode and the counter as locCode_counter.
${_V(locCode_${counter})}
when counter is 1, this is equal to ${locCode_1}.