How to convert integer to string?

Hello all, good topic 

I would like also to use a conversion of string to symbol in such a way but something is not ok.

       a=stringToSymbol("opt1")

       b=stringToSymbol("opt2")

                   hiGetCurrentWindow()->a->b

The received value  is nil ... but should not be. ("opt1" and "opt2" are just for example)

How I can perform this operation?

Regards,

        Nikolay

Hi Nikolay,

The -> operator does not evaluate the property name argument - it takes it literally. So this is looking for a property called "a" on the window, and then a property "b" on that.

You'd have to use the get() function instead:

get(get(hiGetCurrentWindow() a) b)

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew,
      And what if the properties are in the body of the command 

                       a=stringToSymbol("property1")

                        b=stringToSymbol("property2")           

                               command(property1->property2)

Regards,

          Nikolay

Nikolay,

I have no idea what you mean by "the properties are in the body of a command". Please give a real example - this is a bit abstract at the moment and it's hard to understand what you're asking.

Regards,

Andrew

Actually now I realize that this is not property , but it's argument for the command.

The command is with syntax 

                                    command(property1->property2)

 The question is how I can build this argument for proper evaluation 

                               a=stringToSymbol("property1")

                               b=stringToSymbol("property2")    

                                           command(a->b)

And probably this question have to be moved to another topic :)

Regards,

          Nikolay

Nikolay,

Your question still doesn't really make sense - it's still too abstract - but as a wild guess, maybe you want:

command(get(symeval(a) b))

Unless you give a real example though, I'm just stabbing in the dark here.

Regards,

Andrew.

Andrew,

   It's not needed to give you examples for the current issue, even with such abstracts description you managed to understand what I probably mean.

   Your proposal works perfect. Thanks!

Regards,

          Nikolay

As Andrew pointed out, the dash-arrow operator represents the get function. Your command string should be:

command( get(a b))

This will execute on the values of a and b rather than on a and b itself.

Ted