Get the name of a variable?

[thisisauniqueusername]

Is it possible to get the name of a variable?
For example:

myvar="Fluffy";
Debug.Print(myvar.."\r\n");
Debug.Print(GetVarName(myvar.."\r\n"));

would result in:

Fluffy
myvar

[Bags]

Is it possible to get the name of a variable?
For example:

myvar="Fluffy";
Debug.Print(myvar.."\r\n");
Debug.Print(GetVarName(myvar.."\r\n"));

would result in:

Fluffy
myvar

This seem rather useless because you already know the name of the variable when you passed it to GetVarName(). You see what I am saying?

If you wanted to get a variable name from source while the executable is running in AMS you could create a function that gathers the objects source scripts via Page.GetObjectScript and parse it out for variable names.

Perhaps if you explain a little more on what exactly it is you are trying to accomplish we could better help you out here?

[thisisauniqueusername]

For Debugging purposes I use this Script:

function Debug.TablePrint(tbl,indent)	
	Debug.ShowWindow(true)
	local boolDebugMode=Debug.GetTraceMode();
	local index='';
	local value='';
	Debug.SetTraceMode(false)
	if (tbl~=nil) then			
		if (indent==nil) then
			indent=""
		else
			indent=indent.."	";
		end			
		if (type(tbl)=="table") then
			for index,value in tbl do
				if (type(value)=="string" or type(value)=="number") then
					Debug.Print(indent.."["..index.."] ("..type(value)..")::"..value.."\r\n")
				elseif (type(value)=="boolean") then
					if (value==true) then
						Debug.Print(indent.."["..index.."] ("..type(value)..")::"..'true'.."\r\n")
					else
						Debug.Print(indent.."["..index.."] ("..type(value)..")::"..'false'.."\r\n")
					end
				elseif (type(value)=="table") then -- ommit this to have (table) printed next to the tables
					Debug.Print(indent.."["..index.."]\r\n") -- ommit this to have (table) printed next to the tables
				else
					Debug.Print(indent.."["..index.."] ("..type(value)..")\r\n")
				end
				Debug.TablePrint(tbl[index],indent)
			end
		end
	end
	Debug.SetTraceMode(boolDebugMode)
end

It prints out the table structure and values of whatever table I pass it.
The first line that is printed out in it, is the First Index of the table. I would like the first line that it prints out, to instead be the name of the table itself, and then the indexes and values.

mytable={}
for x=1,5 do
	mytable[x]=x;
end
Debug.TablePrint(mytable)

results in

[1](number)::1
[2](number)::2
[3](number)::3
[4](number)::4
[5](number)::5

I would prefer it to be

[mytable]
	[1](number)::1
	[2](number)::2
	[3](number)::3
	[4](number)::4
	[5](number)::5

[thisisauniqueusername]

nevermind - realized that even if i could print out the name of the variable, it still would not give the result I was looking for, as the variable name inside the function would be "tbl" instead of "mytable"

[Teqskater]

This is realy a classic problem when you advance to a higher level of programming in AMS. I had the problem once too. . I like to see that i wasnt the only one.

[Imagine Programming]

This is realy a classic problem when you advance to a higher level of programming in AMS. I had the problem once too. . I like to see that i wasnt the only one.

Nee is inderdaad nog al lastig, maarja:P

**No it's quite difficult indeed, ah well:P**