On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 09:12:06AM +0200, Anton Ertl wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:40:24AM +0200, Robert Sander wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want to create a word and store a generated id and a string in the > > datafield. > > > > I have the following words: > > > > variable ma# > > 68 ma# ! \ just to find the value in the memoy > > > > : ma: ( -- ) > > 1 ma# +! \ increment ma# - is there a better way? > > create ma# @ , \ reserve space and store the value of ma# > > parse-name 2, \ get next word and store addr and length > > does> ( -- u) @ ; > > > > > > With the following definition: > > > > ma: robert rs > ... > > Now I want to see the string "rs": > > > > ' robert >body 1 cells + 2@ type c ok > > > > but this does not work. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > PARSE-NAME just points into the input buffer. The result is only > valid until the text interpreter switches to the next line. You can > make the name permanent (until the end of the session) with SAVE-MEM ( > c-addr1 u -- c-addr2 u ), i.e.: > > : ma: ( -- ) > 1 ma# +! \ increment ma# - is there a better way? > create ma# @ , \ reserve space and store the value of ma# > parse-name save-mem 2, \ get next word and store addr and length > does> ( -- u) @ ; > > - anton
It works. Thanks a lot! I spent several hours searching in the wrong place...
