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Apprentice Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 100 Location: USA

I am playing with some code for a script, so this is all hypothetical for now. Larkin, I got inspiration from some of your code snippets, so I'm primarily looking at you here.

#VAR testv {(blah1|blah11)|(blah2|blah22)}

How do you change the contents of @testv.1.2, or anything else for that matter?

GURU Joined: 28 Sep 2000 Posts: 434 Location: USA

Possibly the ugliest way (and the only way I can think of) is like this:

%replaceitem(%replaceitem("blah12",2,%item(@testv,1)),1,@testv)

You can of course make your own function for this.

#FUNCTION replacenesteditem {%replaceitem(%replaceitem("%1",%3,%item("%4",%2)),%2,"%4")}

Syntax: @replacenesteditem(string,n,i,list)
Where n is item to manipulate, and i is the nested item to replace.

Still kind of ugly, but is certainly easier. This will now accomplish the same thing.

@replacenesteditem("blah12",1,2,@testv)

Apprentice Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 100 Location: USA

That works, and I have another question. What function can be used to return the index of the loop, but not the contents that the index is pointing to? Such as, %pointer() or something that would return a 1 if its on loop one of execution.

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

I don't know of a function right off hand but in your loop you can do this

loopcount=%i

and just refrencing @loopcount will till you where in the loop you are at

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

%i may also be used by itself without first assigning it to a variable. Do know that %i behaves differently depending on what loop you are running. For #LOOP, %i is the current iteration index, while for #FORALL it is the item of the stringlist for the current iteration.