Setting variable variables

[Matthew Broms]

Brian et al,

Thanks for the quick response.  I've already tried it the way you have
suggested and learned that it does work, but now I've figured out why I
missed it and what my problem is.  Unfortunately, it's still a problem.  I
wanted to establish these locals at a high enough level that the rest of the
script could use them.  Since the number of variables may grow or shrink, I
need to set them in a for loop:

local 
    cellNames = {"prodName", "prodPrice"};
    valueList = {"widget", "$9.99"};
    i
for i = 1 to sizeOf (cellNames)
    local ([cellNames[i]] = i)
msg ("Done")
Onto rest of script processing...


However, when I set them in a for loop, they are only visible/usable to code
within that loop.  Once the loop finishes and I get out to my next statement
(msg), the subtable full of the new variables I successfully created is
dumped - no more access.

I have figured out an alternative, but one I don't care as much for and
that's building a new table with the key/value pairs.  This works fine, but
I wanted to keep everything just in memory verses utilizing the Frontier DB.
Plus it's a whole other process which adds to processing time (it's a big
list).



Matt

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> From: Brian V Hughes <brianvh at Dartmouth.EDU>
> Reply-To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 18:03:02 -0500
> To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
> Subject: Re: Setting variable variables
> 
> --On 11/28/01, Matthew Broms wrote:
>> Is it possible to create variables from a retrieved list, such as
>> setting the following:
>> 
>> Newly retrieved list:
>> 
>>     nameList = {"prodNum", "prodPrice"}
>>     valueList = {"abc123", "$49.95"}
>> 
>> Set two new variables based on the above strings:
>> 
>>     Local (nameList[1] = 1, nameList[2] = 2)
> 
> To do what you want you need to use this notation:
> 
>     Local ([nameList[1]] = 1, [nameList[2]] = 2)
> 
> This will cause Frontier to resolve the list values and then use them
> as local variable names.
> 
> -Brian
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