Set Variable or CustomProperty Names with and expression

[dunbarx at aol.com]

This is a classic case of a line of code needing and extra level of evaluation. Goes back to 1987.


So, arrays notwithstanding, which "parse" sections of code intrinsically, you could:



   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


Which way is a matter of style.


Craig Newman


-----Original Message-----
From: Brahmanathaswami <brahma at hindu.org>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wed, Aug 12, 2015 12:43 am
Subject: Set Variable  or CustomProperty Names with and expression


I want to move data from one variable to several others by parsing one 
and
passing them to another (s)

In this scenario... the variable I want to pass
them to needs to be 
named according to one of the search items

like
this:

where I want variable based on category names
like:

lifeset
godset
meditation set

etc.

categories are 
e.g.

life,god,meditation

-----------
repeat for each line x in
gAllQuotes

       repeat for each item y in tCategories
          if item 6
of x contains y then
             put x & cr & "|" after ("t" &y&"set")
      
end repeat
    end repeat

set the uLifeSet of this stack to
tlifeset

-------------------

But apparently this is illegal... a variable
name cannot be the result 
of an expression.

I suppose I should think about
using arrays, but this is a very small 
amount of text data (less than 200K of
line/tab delimited data) and I 
never found the processing time for just
parsing delimited text to be 
that serious an issue...

Any clues? I'll sleep
on this...perhaps get an answer in a dream tonite.

If not, I'll be looking
for one
here

BR

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