4d-database

using raw text as table instead of pointer to table

Are there any structure access methods in 4D that will let you provide a text data type argument to a 4D method that will let you get information about a table?

I've looked at: Table, Table name but both seem to only take in a table number or a table pointer -- not regular text.

I know I can achieve this by passing in a pointer to a table like this:

foo(->[someTable])

But what I want to do is something like this:

foo("someTable")

Are there any methods in 4D that will take raw text and return a table pointer?

I'm using 4D v15.3 but could upgrade to v16 if this feature was available.

Solution

  • You can construct the pointer using text with the command Get pointer.

    $pointer:=Get pointer("[foo]")
$tableNumber:=Table($pointer)