alternative to do for loading variables from array?

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Mon Mar 17 11:33:50 EDT 2014


Why would you want to? Why not just use the array variables “as is”? What you are doing seems to me to be something like “put a into b” and then not modifying a or b. 

In your example, do something like:

put (theList[theVar] contains “cat page”) into isTrue

Bob


On Mar 15, 2014, at 13:04 , Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a "decent" way to load variables from an array without "do" or a
> long list of commands?
> 
> If theList[pageName] is "cat page" and so forth, I can
> 
> repeat for each word theVar in "pageName pageHeight pageWidth"
>   do "put " & theList[theVar] & " into " & theVar
> end repeat
> 
> but this will cause a slew of compiles.
> 
> I could also rattle off the list, but this is more maintainable.
> 
> Is there a better way to do this?
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