I'm on windows.... Generics.Collections seems to be something that was added after 3.0.4, I've downloaded the current FPC source code, but I’m not sure how to build it.. can someone point me in the right direction on how to compile the current source code?
James -----Original Message----- From: fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org> On Behalf Of James Richters Sent: Monday, July 8, 2019 6:48 AM To: 'FPC-Pascal users discussions' <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] specify variable name with string variable Thank you for the answer and the example... I didn't know there was such a thing as a variable dictionary, but It looks like that may work for me, I'll give it a try! James -----Original Message----- From: fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org> On Behalf Of zh loza Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2019 4:34 PM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] specify variable name with string variable Hi all! It's my first answer to the mailing list, hopefully I won't screw anything up. On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 10:58 PM James Richters <ja...@productionautomation.net> wrote: > > This might sound silly, but is it possible to somehow specify a variable > with a string containing the name of the variable? You might want to try using generic dictionaries. E.g. like this: program Project1; uses SysUtils, Generics.Collections; type TVariableDictionary = specialize TDictionary<String, PWord>; var MyDictionary: TVariableDictionary; MyVariable1: Word; begin MyDictionary := TVariableDictionary.Create; MyDictionary.Add('MyVariable1', @MyVariable1); MyDictionary['MyVariable1']^ := 100; WriteLn(MyVariable1); WriteLn(MyDictionary['MyVariable1']^); FreeAndNil(MyDictionary); end. If you need to address variables of different type, try Variants ( https://wiki.freepascal.org/Variant ). _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal