No worries, Pete
I may be misreading how you are using this, but does the following have any
application?
s=. 'test'
(s)=. 4
test
4
You can assign results to a variable within parentheses that is evaluated and
the assignment is to the value of the variable
Cheers, bob
> On Feb 18, 2020, at 10:36, PMA <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Bob, Jimmy, Pascal --
> Just plain old Do fercrisake.
> Omg, I feel like an idiot!
> (Happy, o'course)
>
> See, I'll be using the quotes in one string
> as the var NAME that this function's output
> will be assigned to. A little cumbersome,
> but hey...
>
> Thanks again!
> Cheers back!!!
> Pete
>
> On 02/18/2020 12:27 PM, 'robert therriault' via Programming wrote:
>> Hi Pete,
>>
>> Are you looking for ". (Do)
>> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/quotedot
>>
>> ".'1 + 1'
>> 2
>> FUNCTION=: 4 : 0
>> smoutput x NB. output x string
>> smoutput y NB. output y string
>> x +&". y NB. Using + as the dyadic verb placeholder, equivalent to (". x)
>> + ". y
>> )
>> '1+1' FUNCTION '2+2'
>> 1+1
>> 2+2
>> 6
>>
>> Cheers, bob
>>
>>> On Feb 18, 2020, at 09:10, PMA <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> This question must be too clueless to ask,
>>> but two hours with NuVoc leaves me still
>>> wondering --
>>>
>>> I need to write a function invocation with
>>> its numeric x and y each in quotes as TEXT:
>>>
>>> '1+1' FUNCTION '2+2'
>>>
>>> I want the function then, after displaying
>>> x and y, to remove their quotes and execute
>>> their innards.
>>>
>>> What (a primitive, I assume!) will convert
>>> each quote to an executable expression?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> Sorry to test your patience!
>>> Pete
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