OpenEuphoria

wildcard usage

• Posted by Norm Goundry <bonk1000 at HOTMAIL.COM> Apr 10, 1999
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got a bit of a thing that has been driving me slowly insane since I first
started using EU.  I have tried every permutation of code to create a
'wildcard' method to substitute for many lines of branching to strings of
data; question: is it possible to turn this...?

       --string 1
       a1={"cat","dog","mouse"}
       --string 2
       a2={"chicken","duck","cow"}

       input=x  string_to_fetch="a" & x
       --where string_to_fetch is executable in the same way
       --that either string_to_fetch=a1 or string_to_fetch=a2 is

-- I know that this isn't legal code, but perhaps you get the idea.  I am
polishing up some of the code of a huge database written in EU and this
would be extremely useful if it is possible to do such a thing.  I could do
it on my old Amiga when using AMOS Basic.  Any ideas that I haven't thought
of yet?, any thing that works?, any help and suggestions for this will be
mightly appreciated.  Note: I don't wish to hear any lecturing about this
bringing on the nightmare of 'speghetti-code'... if it is doable it can be
usable.
thanks Norm