Set Variable or CustomProperty Names with and expression

[Peter Haworth]

Instead of setting individual cprops, you could store the whole array as a
cprop - "set the uQuoteSets of this stack to aQuoteSets".  When you want to
use them, "put the uQuoteSets of this stack into aQuoteSets"

By the way, I entered a QCC report about the ability to use expressions as
custom property names a few months back. Mark Waddingham commented that it
should be fairly easy to implement but it hasn't happened yet.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:45 AM Brahmanathaswami <brahma at hindu.org> wrote:

> Neither of these worked...
>
> I took the cue from Mark and tried arrays
>
> this was incredibly simple... almost.
>
> In the end I was unable to figure out how to pass a variable string as a
> name of a custom property. My head was hurting, so instead of breaking
> it on further attempts to find the algorithm for this... I "man handled
> it" in the end with my usual verbose "baby xTalk"
>
> command getAndDistributeCategories
>     set the defaultstack to "Gurudeva"
>     put url  ("file:/" & localpath()& "data/gurudeva-quotes.txt") into
> gAllQuotes
>
>     set the uAllQuotes of  stack "Gurudeva"  to gAllQuotes # line/pipe
> delimited
>     put the uCategories of this stack into tCategories # tab delimited
>
>
>     set the linedelimiter to "|"
>     set the itemdelimiter to tab
>
>     repeat for each line x in gAllQuotes
>
>        repeat for each item y in tCategories
>           put "t" & y & "Set" into tAggregatedSet
>           if (item 6 of x contains y) then put x & "|" after aQuoteSets[y]
>        end repeat
>
>     end repeat
>
> # get some stats
>
>     repeat for each item y in tCategories
>        put y & " quotes: " & the number of lines of aQuoteSets[y] & cr
> after tCountCheck
>     end repeat
>
>     put tCountCheck into url ("file:/"& localpath() &
> "data/quote-spread-stats.txt")
>
> ## LOAD PROPS - which is the target goal of this handler ##
>
> # I "give up" on a more efficient method.. this works but
> # has the downside of being hard-wired... so if we change the category
> names
> # we have to manually massage this code... there must be a better way:
> # you cannot do anything like
> # set the ("u" & y & "Set") of this stack... the compiler complains this
> is illegal
>
>     set the uKarmaQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Karma"]
>     set the uHinduismQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Hinduism"]
>     set the uSivaQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Siva"]
>     set the uWisdomQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Wisdom"]
>     set the uLifeQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Life"]
>     set the uGuruQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Guru"]
>     set the uSelfQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Self"]
>     set the uGodsQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Gods"]
>     set the uHumorQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Humor"]
>     set the uMeditationQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Meditation"]
>     set the uSadhanaQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Sadhana"]
>     set the uWorshipQuotes of this stack to aQuoteSets["Worship"]
>
> end getAndDistributeCategories
>
> So this is the same issue: setting variable name or CustomProp name with
> an expression.
>
> Swasti Astu, Be Well!
> Brahmanathaswami
>
> Kauai's Hindu Monastery
> www.HimalayanAcademy.com
>
>
>
> dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> >     repeat for each item y in tCategories
> >           do "if item 6 of"&&  x&&  "contains"&&  y&&  "then put"&&
> x&&  "&"&&  cr&  "| after"&&  t&  y&  "set"
> >     end repeat
> >
> >
> > or:
> >
> >
> >   repeat for each item y in tCategories
> >           get ("t"&  y&  "set")
> >           if item 6 of x contains y then put x&  cr&  "|" after it
> >    end repeat
>
>
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