At 12:52 30.10.2000 +0000, Leon McComish wrote:
>Hey gang,
>
>Anybody know if I can concatenate variable names like strings? I have a
>large number of variables (ball1, ball2, ball3 etc) and am trying to
>optimise my code. I can set a temp variable to a number (eg x=1, x=2 etc)
>and want to create the 1st variable from this.
Yep, this can be done using the 'do' which allows to run strings as lingo
input. If youre variables are globals you could add properties to 'the
globals' as an alternative.
However, I wouldn't advise to do so. That sort of task is what list are
made for. Instead of countless balln - variables you could have a single
list LBalls with all the values as its items.
After that you can exchange
theball = ball3
with
theBall = LBalls[3]
or even
ballOffset = ballOffset + 1
theBall = LBall[ballOffset]
which could do a lot in optimizing your code's maintainability.
Best regards
Daniel Plaenitz
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