http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/macro-creating-n-Arrays-within-a-for-loop-tp3688201p3688206.html
String actual name. I am thinking of creating a method like
> Hi Cristophe,
>
> yep, you are right, but I fear, this feature alone would still make any
> code very clumsy,
> what one would really need is some kind "indirection" that really takes a
> string
> variable and interprets it´s contents in the same places (within an
> expression
> and also to the left of the assignment) and the same way as the variable
> that´s
> "in" the string (including indexing... etc.)
>
> Joachim
>
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[hidden email]> schrieb am 07.05.2010 13:57:43:
>
>
>> I think there is an "execute" command in the macro language that reads
>> a string as a command. It is the "eval" function :
>>
>> eval(macro)
>> Evaluates (runs) one or more lines of macro code. An optional second
>> argument can be used to pass a string to the macro being evaluated.
>> See also: EvalDemo macro and runMacro function.
>>
>>
http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/developer/macro/functions.html#eval>>
>> Or maybe I make a confusion ? I used it recently to create a segmented
>> line from an array of coordinates, by concatenating a MakeLine command
>> with all coordinates as a string, and using "eval" to execute it.
>>
>> Christophe
>>
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 13:20, Joachim Wesner
>> <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>>>> name = "test " +i;
>>>>> name = newArray(k);
>>>>>
>>>
>>>> Maybe because you are trying to make a variable name that contains a
>>>>
>>> space.
>>>
>>>> Try removing it.
>>>>
>>> No, this will only create a new Variable called "name" of type Array,
>>>
> the
>
>>> old string variable "name" will be discarded!
>>>
>>> As long as there is no "execute" statement in the ImageJ Macro language
>>> (Hint! Hint!), that really RE-interprets a string as a new command
>>> (however, if I´m not mistaken here, you would need thsi also in all
>>>
> places,
>
>>> where you need to access one the the multiple arrays,
>>> not only when creating those) you are somewhere out of luck.
>>>
>>> Johannes,
>>>
>>> What I would do in such cases, if you already know the number of
>>>
> "arrays" n
>
>>> outside the loop (can still be a dynamic value that is read from
>>> somewhere on runtime, you could create an array of n-times the single
>>>
> size
>
>>> and use a variable offset in that array.
>>>
>>> (Maybe this is basically what you did?)
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Joachim Wesner
>>>
>>>
>>>
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