Re: dynamic variables
Re: dynamic variables
- Subject: Re: dynamic variables
- From: "jay" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:55:19 -0400
Thanks for your reply jj.
I'm not sure if that is what I am looking for. It could be better described with an example: My program is going to get 100 numbers while it is running (say from the user). I need to save all 100 numbers. Instead of defining 100 variables outright I want my script to create a new variable every time it receives a new number. Thus my program would start with 0 number variables and end with 100 variable numbers.
Any insight is appreciated,
-j
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is there any way to create variables dynamically in applescript?
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thanks,
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-j
Do you mean using a string created on-the-fly?
You can, but it is not a recomendable practice, unless you need it so bad...
In this sample, you can see that I assign an integer value to the new var;
there are not problems, since I can coerce an integer to string, and build
the entire "script" string to "run". But for a list or record, I should
write some extra lines to "stringize" such list or record...
Here, the sample:
#########################################
--> get hard disk name, eg, to build a variable
set varName to text 1 thru -2 of ("/" as POSIX file as string)
set varValue to varName's length --> create also a value on-the-fly
--> enclose varName within "|", to avoid blank spaces and special chars
set myVar to run script "set my parent's |" & varName & "| to " & varValue
whatever * 2 --> test it! My disk is called "whatever", so this returns 16
#########################################
jj
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