Can you use a Pointer or Dot variable to build a string ?

[bob9145]

concatenate_required_fields = "amount=" + required.amount + "&interval=" + required.interval + "&product[name]=" + required.product_name + "&currency=" + required.currency)

?concatenate_required_field
="("amount=2500&interval=month&product[name]=Silver&currency=usd)"


This is a lot of typing, could this be turned into a function that took the required dot variable and turned it into the needed string? Here is the twist
the number of fields in the dot variable may change, for instance the above may also include more or less required.fields.
Function concatenate_in_curl_format(required,8) 8 being the number of required fields included in the dot variable.

Guess my first step would be parsing the variable. The function would have to detect the required.dots it contained. How can a function dissect the variable?
Then it would have to build the string accordingly. Any xbasic functions or methods to help with this?

[bob9145]

dim required as p
dim required.amount as n
dim required.currency as c
dim required.plan as c
required.amount = "3000"
required.currency = "usd"
required.plan = "gold"
?required
= amount = 3000
currency = "usd"
plan = "gold"

So how do I use ?required in a xbasic script and evaluate and utilize the result?

[Stan Mathews]

lst = properties_enum(required)

out = ""
for each foo in lst
out = out + "required."+ foo.value+" is type "+typeof(eval("required."+foo.value))+crlf()
next
? out
= required.amount is type N
required.interval is type C
required.product_name is type C
required.currency is type C

[bob9145]

Thanks Stan! that .s me in the right direction!