hi,

"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > This Parse_String(...) ...= ", str (U, 0, 0), "\n")
> It would be handy to have a simple macro that you could just pass  _ U _ to, but
> U the text character and U the scalar value are separate and distinct.
>
> So my short dream was about implementing Parse_String to create such a macro...
>
> I think I ran out of dried frog pills.....

not quite what you thought of, the "wrong way round"?  :-)

Script started on Mon 28 Sep 2020 11:05:25 BST

jr@goose:4:tmp$ c### [at] bepov
#version 3.8;

global_settings {assumed_gamma 1}

#include "strings.inc"

#macro Abc(s_)
  #debug concat(s_, " = ", str(Parse_String(s_),0,2), "\n")
#end

#declare name_ = "U";

Parse_String(concat("#declare ", name_, " = 123.45;"));

Abc(name_)


jr@goose:5:tmp$ povparse be.pov
Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.8.0-alpha.9945627.unofficial
   ...
==== [Parsing...] ==========================================================
U = 123.45
File 'be.pov' line 8: Parse Warning: No objects in scene.
==== [Rendering...] ========================================================


regards, jr.

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