A little syntactic sugar

[massung]

I don't want to bastardize the simplicity that is the Rev scripting language, but I often find myself extracting the same data repeatedly in the same ways. For example:

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get someFuncThatReturnsFourLines()

put line 1 of it into tLine1
put line 2 of it into tLine2
put line 3 of it into tLine3
put line 4 of it into tLine4

Instead, I think it would be far more efficient (and just as readable) to do the following:

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put the lines of someFunc() into tLine1, tLine2, tLine3, tLine4

Or something similar.. perhaps a new command ("extract" comes to mind, but I'm sure there's plenty of good ideas out there). If there's already a way to do something similar (using chunks and not regex) then I await to be amazed by someone.

Jeff M.

[Klaus]

Hi Jeff,

when it comes to concatenating names of variables, which IS possible, you need to use the "do" statement like this:

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...
put someFuncThatReturnsLotsOfLines() into tVariable
put 0 into tCounter
repeat for each line k in tVariable
  add 1 to tCounter
  do "put k into" && (tLine & tCounter)
end repeat
...

Tested and works

Best

Klaus

[massung]

Ya, I know. I'm just hoping for something with a little brevity that also doesn't compromise readability and the expressiveness of Rev.

Thanks, though.

Jeff M.

[FourthWorld]

If the lines are just going into variables, would an array provide what you need?

[massung]

If the lines are just going into variables, would an array provide what you need?

I'd be fine with that, as long as the array was keyed by the chunk type described:

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put the lines of fld "txt" into tMyArray # or item, char, word, etc.

-- tMyArray[1] = line 1 of fld "txt"
-- tMyArray[2] = line 2 of fld "txt"
-- etc.

Obviously, this is trivial to do in a loop. As the post title suggests, this is just the hope for a little syntactic sugar.

Jeff M.

[FourthWorld]

See the split command which lets you put a delimited chunk into separate array elements, e.g.:

split tData by cr

[massung]

See, don't ya just love when your feature request is added just that quickly?

Jeff M.