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Generating keyword parameters from strings [message #67458]

Wed, 22 July 2009 08:56

Eric Hudson
Messages: 19
Registered: June 2006

Junior Member

Hi,

Does anyone know of a method of taking a string and turning it into a
keyword parameter? As an example, say I want to write a function:

function GetProperty, object, propertyName
object->GetProperty, 'propertyName'=value ; This is pseudocode --
this line is what I need
return, value
end

Obviously I can write this using execute, but I'd prefer to avoid that
if at all possible.
Also, although I use the GetProperty method as an example, this is a
more generic question about generating keyword parameter calls (so,
for example, David's nice discussion of a general GetProperty method
http://www.dfanning.com/tips/getproperty.html doesn't help here).

If I were just setting a value this would be easy to do with _EXTRA by
making my own structure. But for getting values it doesn't seem like
there is an easy equivalent (it would be nice to just make a
_REF_EXTRA structure if it behaved equivalent to _EXTRA but it seems
it doesn't).

Thanks,
Eric

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		Generating keyword parameters from strings By: Eric Hudson on Wed, 22 July 2009 08:56
		Re: Generating keyword parameters from strings By: David Fanning on Thu, 30 July 2009 11:08
		Re: Generating keyword parameters from strings By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 30 July 2009 10:48
		Re: Generating keyword parameters from strings By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 30 July 2009 08:55
		Re: Generating keyword parameters from strings By: David Fanning on Thu, 30 July 2009 08:44

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