Slava Paperno wrote:
I'm looking for the LC equivalent to the JavaScript eval() function. For
example, if I have a variable called "tAddress" and I want an LC statement
to assign a value to it, I'd like to say something like put "202 Main
Street" into eval("tAddress").
That may sound silly because if I, the programmer, know the name of the
variable, I should say put "202 Main Street" into tAddress. But I don't know
the name of the variable because it will be generated by a handler.
As Mark suggested, the "do" command or the "value" function will do what
you need.
But this also seems a perfect fit for an array.
Arrays are a great solution when you don't know the number of elements
you'll need to store, or will need to access them by names you can't
know in advance, e.g.:
put "202 Main Street" into tMyData[tAddress]
put "Slava Paperno" into tMyData[tName]
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Richard Gaskin
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