Re: any way to tell if a script has a 'return' statement?
Re: any way to tell if a script has a 'return' statement?
- Subject: Re: any way to tell if a script has a 'return' statement?
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- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:40:24 EDT
Don,
Why are you running scripts when you don't know their internal structure?
This sounds like a security risk.
That aside, I don't think there is a way to do what you want, unless you can
capture the script as text and parse the text to find a return statement.
Jeff Baumann
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In a message dated 10/25/01 8:52:39 AM, Donald S. Hall wrote:
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Hi all,
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If you run a script with 'run script', the script can optionally return a
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value in the result variable with a return statement.
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Is there any way to determine if a script in fact has a return statement?
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I want to be able to save the result returned by a script to a file, but
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since the result will always have something in it (something I don't want to
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save if the script doesn't specifically return a value), how do I tell
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whether or not I should be saving the result variable? I won't know a priori
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if the script I am running has a return statement.
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Thanks for any suggestions,
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Don
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Donald S. Hall, Ph.D.
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Apps & More Software Design, Inc.
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http://www.theboss.net/appsmore
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