Determining the variable name

[arobin4]

Hello Forum,

I am trying to determine the name of a variable based on the value of the variable, For example in:

Let>green_alarm=ssh
Let>red_alarm=http

I need a code construct to determine which variable has the value "http" without having to perform an explicit 'if' check on each variable. For simplicity the variable values in my example are static, but in my actual use-case the value of the variables will be calculated (dynamic). Is there a "find" type of command to accomplish this?

Thank you

[Marcus Tettmar]

It sounds like what you really want is an array, but instead of an array indexed by numbers, indexed by a string which in this case is a colour. If we call it alarm_ and we have array entries alarm_green and alarm_red we could have an array of the index names (green, red, ...) then we could use some loops to do your "FIND". You'd need an array for the index names, and a repeat/until loop for the main array, which stops when found.


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[arobin4]

Marcus,
Thank you!

Aaron

[hagchr]

Not sure if this would work for you but one way could be to pull the variable names and values into a string and then use RegEx to search for the variable name.

//Assign variables
Let>alarm_green=http
Let>alarm_orange=xyz
Let>alarm_red=ssh

//Create reference string to search
Let>refstring=alarm_green=%alarm_green%%CRLF%alarm_orange=%alarm_orange%%CRLF%alarm_red=%alarm_red%

//Value you are searching for
Let>searchstring=ssh

//Do the search
Let>tmp0=(?m)[^=\n]+(?==%searchstring%)
RegEx>tmp0,refstring,0,M,NM,0

If>NM>0
MessageModal>M_1
ELSE
MessageModal>Value not assigned to variable
EndIf
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