If you want to something like

$OUT oscili $AMP, $FREQ

then it should work without the need of any extra feature.

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> On 17 Dec 2020, at 12:29, Anders Genell  wrote:
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> Hi all!
> I dont know if this is a stupid question but could not find a mention about this usecase.
> Can a string somehow be used as a variable name? Something like
> 
> Sname strcpy "asig"
> 
> Sname poscil3 .5, 440, 1
> 
> 
> My idea was to be able to determine variable names through a command line --omacro flag.
> 
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> Anders
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perhaps strget and strset?



On 17/12/2020 19:55, Anders Genell wrote:
> Well, that should work just fine!
> Thanks!
> 
> I was trying to do something uselessly complicated...
> 
> Just out of curiosity though, would it be possible to generate variable 
> names automatically and assign values to them?
> Can numbers be converted to strings?
> something like
> 
> indx init 1
> if (indx <= 10) then
>      Saoutn strcat "aout", number_to_string(indx)
>      indx=indx+1
> endif
> 
> regard_as_variable(Saoutn) poscil3 0.1, 440, 1
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Anders
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 4:09 PM Victor Lazzarini  > wrote:
> 
>     If you want to something like
> 
>     $OUT oscili $AMP, $FREQ
> 
>     then it should work without the need of any extra feature.
> 
>     ========================
>     Prof. Victor Lazzarini
>     Maynooth University
>     Ireland
> 
>      > On 17 Dec 2020, at 12:29, Anders Genell      > wrote:
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>      > Hi all!
>      > I dont know if this is a stupid question but could not find a
>     mention about this usecase.
>      > Can a string somehow be used as a variable name? Something like
>      >
>      > Sname strcpy "asig"
>      >
>      > Sname poscil3 .5, 440, 1
>      >
>      >
>      > My idea was to be able to determine variable names through a
>     command line --omacro flag.
>      >
>      > Regards,
>      > Anders
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and sprintf

Prof. Victor Lazzarini
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> On Dec 17, 2020, at 7:59 PM, joachim heintz  wrote:
> 
> perhaps strget and strset?
> 
> 
> 
>> On 17/12/2020 19:55, Anders Genell wrote:
>> Well, that should work just fine!
>> Thanks!
>> I was trying to do something uselessly complicated...
>> Just out of curiosity though, would it be possible to generate variable names automatically and assign values to them?
>> Can numbers be converted to strings?
>> something like
>> indx init 1
>> if (indx <= 10) then
>>     Saoutn strcat "aout", number_to_string(indx)
>>     indx=indx+1
>> endif
>> regard_as_variable(Saoutn) poscil3 0.1, 440, 1
>> Regards,
>> Anders
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 4:09 PM Victor Lazzarini > wrote:
>>    If you want to something like
>>    $OUT oscili $AMP, $FREQ
>>    then it should work without the need of any extra feature.
>>    ========================
>>    Prof. Victor Lazzarini
>>    Maynooth University
>>    Ireland
>>     > On 17 Dec 2020, at 12:29, Anders Genell >    > wrote:
>>     >
>>     > WARNINGThis email originated from outside of Maynooth
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>>     > I dont know if this is a stupid question but could not find a
>>    mention about this usecase.
>>     > Can a string somehow be used as a variable name? Something like
>>     >
>>     > Sname strcpy "asig"
>>     >
>>     > Sname poscil3 .5, 440, 1
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > My idea was to be able to determine variable names through a
>>    command line --omacro flag.
>>     >
>>     > Regards,
>>     > Anders
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