Difference between revisions of "Indirection (@) issues"
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Revision as of 13:18, 5 September 2005
Jim Self
>Kevin wrote:
>I posted about this once before, and it seems that someone had an
>answer. But I can't find that post now.
That was me. It was in response to Nancy's question about indirection.
>I am trying to use indirection (@) to execute a callback function.
>But it looks like the indirection is limited to 8 characters.
The form of indirection you are trying is not standard nor is it supported by GT.M.
>
>e.g.
>
>GTM>w $$SIMPLE^TMGTEST("hello")
>You said:hello
>GTM>set x="SIMPLE^TMGTEST"
>
>GTM>w $$@x@("hello")
>%GTM-E-LABELMISSING, Label referenced but not defined: SIMPLE^T
>
>GTM>
>
>
>How should I do this?
Try putting the "$$" inside the quotes.
I don't think this is standard either (or documented in GT.M for that matter), but this works for me.
s test="$$ucase^%zString"
w @test@("hello kevin")
HELLO KEVIN
