Indirection (@) issues

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