LC equivalent of the JS eval() function

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Slava,

The do command and the value function could be what you are looking for.

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On 24 jul 2011, at 18:10, 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. For
> example, if my handler reads a name-value pair from some file:
> 
> LastKnownAddress="202 Main Street"
> 
> then I want to create a variable called LastKnownAddress and set its value
> to "202 Main Street".
> 
> In JS, I would use eval(). What can I use in LC? It's hard to find things
> like that in the docs when you don't know what they are called.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Slava
> 
>