Scripting what should be a simple loop...

[Bob Sneidar]

As an aside, what Macro Substitution would be able to do is dereference variables at runtime. Assuming an amperstand was the dereference character:

put "field" into theObject
put "tVar" into theVar
put 1 into i
put field &theObject.&i of group "AllFields" into &theVar.&i

This was how dBase and other dev languages accomplished this sort of thing. I imagine this would play holy havoc with the compiler though, even if you used another character for the Macro sub. 

Bob


On Jul 9, 2010, at 4:23 PM, David C. wrote:

> Good grief! Will someone be so kind as to show me the proper way to
> format my script...
> 
> Let's say I have the following
> 
> 1 group named "AllFields" containing:
> 10 text fields, named Field1...Field10
> 10 temporary variables named tVar1...tVar10
> 
> All I want to do, using a loop, is to put the user supplied data
> contained in each field into the corresponding, like-named variable. I
> thought I could do something easy like this
> 
> repeat for i = 1 to 10
> put fld "Field" & i of grp "AllFields" into tVar & i
> end repeat
> 
> I know that I've done this before, but so far I've yet to find the
> right format that will not cause an error when compiling the script
> -and- would greatly appreciate it if some kind soul would rescue me
> from this madness.
> 
> FWIW, I recently had another fifty-something birthday, so I'm blaming it
> all on an increasing case of dementia. As in:
> 
> "Dementia (meaning "deprived of mind") is a serious loss of cognitive
> ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be
> expected from normal ..."
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> David C.
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