Ahem. (: As you would've worked out from Scott's post, a simple 'do is enough to turn a word into type datatype! ...
>> list: [name string! birthday date!] == [name string! birthday date!] >> type: do pick list 2 == string! >> type? type == datatype! Carl. On 26-Aug-02, Carl Read wrote: > On 25-Aug-02, Robert M. Muench wrote: >> Hi, can some help me with this: >> list: [name string! birthday date!] >> field: pick list 1 >> type: pick list 2 >>>> type? Type >> == word! >> What I want to do is to set field to a value of type 'type. >> Something like: >> switch type [ >> string! [value: "test"] >> ] >> to-set-word field reduce[make to-type type value] >> Is something like this possible? Robert > Indeed it is, as I've just found out... > to-type: func [type [datatype!] value [any-type!]][ > make type value > ] >>> to-type string! [EMAIL PROTECTED] > == "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >>> to-type string! 'hello > == "hello" >>> to-type integer! "999" > == 999 > Converting a word in a block to the datatype! type is slightly > tricky though... >>> blk: [string!] > == [string!] >>> type? blk/1 > == word! >>> blk: reduce blk > == [string!] >>> type? blk/1 > == datatype! > So to do what you were attempting at the start... >>> list: [name string! birthday date!] > == [name string! birthday date!] >>> field: pick list 1 > == name >>> type: first reduce reduce [pick list 2] > == string! > That makes 'type a datatype!... >>> type? type > == datatype! > so we can now use it in the above function... >>> to-type type field > == "name" > HTH. -- Carl Read -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
