Call a function using a variable
Bjorn Pettersen
BPettersen at NAREX.com
Fri Apr 27 15:48:06 EDT 2001
> From: Colin Meeks [mailto:colinmeeks at home.com]
>
> Does anybody know if it's possible to do something along the
> following lines
> :
>
> myfunction="test"
> x=myfunction
>
> Basically what I want is when the x variable gets declared it
> get's it's
> data from the function test()
myfunction = eval('test')
x = myfunction()
of course, if you're not sure what you're passing to eval you might get
surprising results <wink>
-- bjorn
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