automatic data typing

Tenaja · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:15 pm **Posts:** 793

Sometimes you need to build a table with multiple data types that must align. (i.e. a string containing a color name, and an int with the color value.)

This gets messy:

Code:

datasection
  data.s "White" : data.i $ffffff
  data.s "Black" : data.i 0
enddatasection

Permitting multiple data types, and automatic types with strings would simplify this common use. If we could have a default setting for numbers, strings are easy to differentiate.

Code:

datasection.i
  data $ffffff , "White"
  data 0, "Black"
enddatasection

I think constant arrays with multiple lines would be far superior, but this seems like a great in-between.

STARGÅTE · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 5:09 pm

and what is

Code:

data 0

byte, acsii, word, unicode, long, quad, float, double ???

KJ67 · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 5:19 pm

I'd prefer the data, read etc. keywords to support structures. Would be more PB-style.

Code:

Structure foo
  x.i
  y.s
  z.f
EndStructure

Restore test
Define t.foo
Read.foo t

test:
DataSection
  Data.foo 1, "Hi", 3.1415
EndDataSection

Tenaja · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:15 pm **Posts:** 793

STARGÅTE wrote:

and what is

Code:

data 0

byte, acsii, word, unicode, long, quad, float, double ???

Whatever your Default type was. In my example, I used .i.

Tenaja · **Joined:** Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:15 pm **Posts:** 793

KJ67 wrote:

I'd prefer the data, read etc. keywords to support structures. Would be more PB-style.

Code:

Structure foo
  x.i
  y.s
  z.f
EndStructure

Restore test
Define t.foo
Read.foo t

test:
DataSection
  Data.foo 1, "Hi", 3.1415
EndDataSection

I'd be happy with that!

c4s · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 6:09 pm

Tenaja wrote:

KJ67 wrote:

I'd prefer the data, read etc. keywords to support structures. Would be more PB-style.

Code:

Structure foo
  x.i
  y.s
  z.f
EndStructure

Restore test
Define t.foo
Read.foo t

test:
DataSection
  Data.foo 1, "Hi", 3.1415
EndDataSection

I'd be happy with that!

Me too! +1

Demivec · **Posted:** Fri May 11, 2012 7:50 pm

KJ67 wrote:

I'd prefer the data, read etc. keywords to support structures. Would be more PB-style.

Code:

Structure foo
  x.i
  y.s
  z.f
EndStructure

Restore test
Define t.foo
Read.foo t

test:
DataSection
  Data.foo 1, "Hi", 3.1415
EndDataSection

Previous thread covering the same/similar subject: [url]http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=40966[/url]

Oh, and I'm still +1 for this.

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