POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Passing file handles to macros: Re: Passing file handles to macros

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From: Rune
Date: 25 May 2002 10:40:36
Message: <3cefa264@news.povray.org>

John VanSickle wrote:
> I was having a bit of trouble with a macro, and
> learned that file handles cannot be passed to macros.
>
> As things stand, the only work-around is to pass the
> file name, and have the macro open the file, or to
> specify a global handle for the macro to use.

I also think you could use the parse_string macro in POV-Ray 3.5 to
parse a string containing the file handle name if I have understood your
problem correctly.

Rune
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