Assign() giving errors (Not Declared etc)

[Shane0000]

Im using assign to call some variables and at runtime I am getting errors:

WARNING: $Reserve_1: possibly used before declaration.

ERROR: $Reserve_1: undeclared global variable.

The code below is how I assign the vars, and I used a 'IsDeclared' to verify that it was successful.

Im trying to clean/convert old code and I would like to get rid of these 60 errors and 60 warnings thanks.

For $i = 1 to 60
if not Assign ( "Reserve_"&$i, "",2) then
  MsgBox(0,"Error Assigning :","Reserve_"&$i)
else
  ;MsgBox(0,"Assigning :","Reserve_"&$i)
EndIf
Next
msgbox(0,'IsDeclared ( Reserve_58 )',IsDeclared ( 'Reserve_58' ))

[BrewManNH]

Au3Check is giving the error message because it has no way to tell that there's a valid variable called $Reserve_58, so it errors out. Here's a way to get around it using Eval.

For $i = 1 To 60
     If Not Assign("Reserve_" & $i, $I, 2) Then
          MsgBox(0, "Error Assigning :", "Reserve_" & $i)
     Else
          ;MsgBox(0,"Assigning :","Reserve_"&$i)
     EndIf
Next
MsgBox(0, 'IsDeclared ( Reserve_58 )', Eval('Reserve_58')) ;<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< No error generated this way.

[czardas]

I don't get any errors. The variables are declared. See below:

For $i = 1 to 60
if not Assign ( "Reserve_"&$i, $i,2) then
  MsgBox(0,"Error Assigning :","Reserve_"&$i)
else
  ;MsgBox(0,"Assigning :","Reserve_"&$i)
EndIf
Next
msgbox(0,'IsDeclared ( Reserve_58 )',Execute("$Reserve_58"))

[kylomas]

shane0000,

I appears that you are trying to assign a variable with no data. czardas's example works because he is assigning the value of $i to the variable being created.

kylomas

edit: additional info - assign issues a return code.

Edited August 16, 2012 by kylomas

[Shane0000]

Neither of these methods removed the error @ run time. Console area.

My intent was to lessen the clutter as there are some out of date funcs giving errors also. This alone is generating 120 error/warnings.

Thanks for the help.

[Shane0000]

kylomas, Yes I am using the same way I would use 'Dim $Reserve_58'. I read in data from a file later to assign the values to alot of diferent vars that are Dim'ed as above ('Dim $sSomeVar') aswell as the 60 $Reserve vars.

The code runs fine, it just generates alot of errors at runtime (in autoit console).

Thanks

Edited August 16, 2012 by Shane0000

[kylomas]

shane0000,

I'm doing some more testing. It looks like what you are doing should have worked. Did you try what BrewmanNH suggested?

kylomas

[kylomas]

shane0000 (f.y.i),

I ran this code to verify that your syntax is correct.

local $ret
For $i = 1 to 60
 $ret = Assign ( "Reserve_"&$i, "",2)
 consolewrite($ret & " | " )
Next

"success" was returned for each assign

kylomas

[Shane0000]

Yeah I tried them both, And I understand that its just going to have to remain.

BrewmanNH stated that the compiler has noway to know that the vars are being declared in such away.

And I can see that now, the compiler cant pre run the code to assign and verify that the vars had been declared. Thats like Inception I think, a compiler within a compiler.

[Shane0000]

That works,

This Errors out in console

local $ret
local $thisVar
For $i = 1 to 60
$ret = Assign ( "Reserve_"&$i, "",2)
consolewrite($ret & " | " )
Next
$thisVar = $Reserve50

Because the compiler has no way to know that later on, $reserve50 will actually be a valid Var.

It just sees that $reserve50 has been called, but not set by standard ways, dim/local/global.

Edited August 16, 2012 by Shane0000

[kylomas]

shane0000,

Yes, I see that but vaguely recall a compiler directive for just this case.

kylomas

[czardas]

Wouldn't it just be easier to use an array for what you want to do?

Dim $Reserve[61]
$Reserve[0] = 60

For $i = 1 To $Reserve[0]
    $Reserve[$i] = $i
Next

$thisVar = $Reserve[50]
MsgBox(0, "", $thisVar)

[Shane0000]

Yeah, I think thats what I should do czardas. I wrote this about 5 years ago , I dunno why I did it like this hehe.

There is like 1400 lines of code and Im trying to go back and figure out what all does what again.

Thanks for the help and info

[BrewManNH]

As the help file says under Assign, if you have to use Assign to create the variables, then it's best to use Eval and IsDeclared to access them later. You CAN access them directly, but you are going to get Au3Check error messages.