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1. RE: [GEN] Template Handler

• Posted by Rod Jackson <rodjackson_x at hotmail.com> Sep 25, 2001
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Dan,

This looks like it could have a lot of potential use!
I'll be sure to dig into it and give feedback.

Rod Jackson

Dan Moyer wrote:
> I've sent Robert a program called "Template Handler", which intends to 
> make
> it easy to store & retrieve snippets or "templates" of code, for both
> Euphoria and Win32Lib (could be extended to EDS etc, too).  Anyone who's
> interested, please check it out & let me know what you think of it.
> 
> It seems to work well, except I don't have many TEMPLATES to include
> with it!
> 
> So I'm hoping maybe some of you will contribute code snippets for
> it.  You could either *use* the Template Handler to create template
> contributions (good exercise for it), or just send code snippets here so
> others could comment upon or improve them (could make for better 
> snippets).
> 
> With "comment or improve" in mind, here's a sample template I might 
> include
> with it later (if you want to use it with the Handler, just save it to a
> file and use an extent ".etp", for "Euphoria TemPlate"); it has two
> templates in it, and the Handler does NOT show all the "!!" comments, 
> just
> the name, description, and code.
> 
> Dan Moyer
> 
> following could be put into a file, eg "Seq1.etp", to use with the 
> handler:
> 
> !!  THIS IS A EUPHORIA CODE TEMPLATE FILE
> !!
> !!    EUPHORIA Sequence Manipulation TEMPLATES
> !!
> !! COMMENTS START WITH !! AT THE *FIRST* SPACE IN LINE
> !! <<CATEGORY defines the CATEGORY of TEMPLATES in this file
> !! <<NAME defines the NAME of a TEMPLATE
> !! <<DESC defines the DESCRIPTION of a TEMPLATE
> !! everything else is TEMPLATE CODE
> !!
> !! in order to allow ACTUAL blank lines INSIDE templates code,
> !! blank lines in TEMPLATE FILE "comments" MUST be preceded by !!
> !!
> <<CATEGORY Sequence Manipulation
> !!
> <<NAME & Operator
> <<DESC How to use "&" to append
> --  ADDING THINGS INTO SEQUENCES:  JUST USE "&"
> 
> -- for simplicity and to avoid confusion, forget about whether to use
> -- "append" or the concatenation operator "&" to add things to a 
> sequence;
> --  just use "&" to do both:
> 
> -- if you want to add the ELEMENTS of a sequence
> -- to the end of the ELEMENTS of another sequence,
> --  just use "&" normally:
> 
> sequence something
> something={"a string"}
> something[1] &= " of letters"       -- appends  " of letters" to end of
> something
> 
> --so, something =  {"a string of letters"}
> 
> -- but if you want to add another SEQUENCE to the end of a sequence,
> -- use "&" and put the sequence to add INSIDE curly braces:
> 
> something &= {"another string"}  -- appends a new dimmed subscript (2)
> 
> .. something will now look like this..
>    {"a string of letters","another string"}
> 
> --Chris Bensler
> 
> <<NAME ArrayMakeFill
> <<DESC Make an array to N dimensions & fill it
> -- Make & Fill an Array
> -- an easy way to create and fill an array of various dimensions:
> 
> -- the syntax of the function is:
> -- <sequence> = array( <filler>, {<dim1>, <dim2>,...<dimN>} )
> -- eg., s = array( 0, {8,10}) gives an array of 8 by 10, filled with 0's
> --    Note:  will work for more than 2 dimensions
> 
> -- created by Lucius L. Hilley III
> 
> sequence s  -- to make as an array
> 
> function array(object filler, sequence dimensions)
>   object x
> 
>   x = filler
>   for A = 1 to length(dimensions) do
>     x = repeat(x, dimensions[A])
>   end for
>   return x
> end function
> 
> s = array(0,{8,10})  -- make an 8 by 10 array, filled with 0's
> 
> print(1,s)  -- show the array
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