ability to SET variables (arrays too) by name

[tsh73]

Just surfaced - topic to save/read array.

I can use EVAL to make "save any array" routine, like this (code below);
but there are no way for setting it by name. So no matching "read any array".
I really feel it would be useful.

dim a(3)
dim b(4)
for i = 1 to 3
   a(i)=i*10
next

for i = 1 to 4
   b(i)=i*11
next

call printAnyArray "a",3
call printAnyArray "b",4

end

sub printAnyArray arrName$, arrSize
   print "Array ";arrName$;"(";arrSize;")"
   for i=1 to arrSize
       tmp=EVAL(arrName$+"("+str$(i)+")")
       print i, tmp
   next
   print
end sub    

[Brandon Parker]

Haaaa....

That was one of my old wish-list items back on conforums .... Hopefully LB5 will have better array functionality.

I just ended up creating my Import Architect utility that handles my Dynamic Array library, User-Types, Macros, Enumerations, importing Binary TKN files for writing them out to disk during runtime, and BAS module import.


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Brandon R. Parker

[Carl Gundel]

Jan 4, 2019 8:19:37 GMT -5 tsh73 said:

Just surfaced - topic to save/read array.

I can use EVAL to make "save any array" routine, like this (code below);
but there are no way for setting it by name. So no matching "read any array".
I really feel it would be useful.

Noted.

[bluatigro]

ubound( array ) function wood be nice to