4D text interpolation

For text string building I am very fond of php’s interpolate feature:

# my variable
$name = "Joe Bob";
# my command
$my_sentence = "Hello {$name}!";

In 4D the same can be accomplished with text objects.

`have a table [Table]full_name
` this is the typed string for the text
` notice the "<" and ">" enclosing the field reference
vt_object:="Hello <[Table]full_name>!"
` outputs "Hello Joe Bob!" assuming that was what was loaded in the record

Significant Revisions

  • May 6th, 2024 Converted to jekyll markdown format and copied to personal site
  • Mar 11th, 2011 Originally published on txcowboycoder wordpress site1

Footnotes

  1. Initial md Generated using https://github.com/jsr6720/wordpress-html-scraper-to-md

    Original Wordpress categories: [‘4D’]

    Original Wordpress tags: “4D”, “4d text object”, “interpolate”, “tip” ↩