RE: getglobal()

["Joshua Jensen" <jjensen@...>]

You can simulate the behavior you want below with the following
function:

function FullLookup(table, variableName)
	local lastPos = 1
	while 1 do
		local curPos = strfind(variableName, "%.", lastPos)
		if not curPos then
			local var = strsub(variableName, lastPos)
			local num = tonumber(var)
			if num then
				var = num
			end
			return table[var]
		end

		local var = strsub(variableName, lastPos, curPos - 1)
		local num = tonumber(var)
		if num then
			var = num
		end
		lastPos = curPos + 1
		table = table[var]
		if not table then
			return nil
		end
	end
end

value = FullLookup(globals(), 'Lol.'..Name..'.Version')

Josh

> Lol={}
> Lol.Write={}
> Lol.Write.Version=001
> print(Lol.Write.Version) --> print expected 1
> Name='Write'
> print(getglobal('Lol.'..Name..'.Version')) --> print nil ???
> 
> Needed for Robertos Ierusalimschy library suggestion (simple example):
> 
> do
> 
>    if Lol==nil then Lol={}
> 
>    local Public,Private={},{}
> 
>    Lol.Write=Public
> 
>    function Public.Initialise()
> 
>       %Public.Version = 001
> 
>    end
> 
> end
> 
> 
> As also suggsted by Roberto I wouldn't like to use dostring() 
> instead of
> getglobal()
> 
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
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