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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 3 Mar 2002 11:43:49
Message: <3C8252C0.A15339EA@gmx.de>

"Sebastian H." wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Inside the macro should have access to OBJ_axis or OBJ_angle so I need a
>   function like *concat (OBJ, "_axis")* that does not return a string
> but the variable identifier.
> 
> Is this anyhow possible in POV?
> 

Two possibilities:

- use arrays for your data instead of single variables
- use the Parse_String() macro (Povray 3.5, strings.inc)

Christoph

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