[Swift-devel] wishlist: string array initialization in a loop

[Ben Clifford]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Tiberiu Stef-Praun wrote:

> =======
>            string nameArray[];
>            string channelNo[]= ["1",  "2",  "3",  "4",  "5",  "6",
> "7",  "8",  "9",  "10",  "11",  "12",  "13",  "14",
>            foreach string ch, ci in channelNo{
> 
> nameArray[ci]=@strcat(trialType,"-",subjectNo,"channel",ch,"_cwt-avgResults.Rdata");
>                //print(outputNamesArray[ci]);
>            }
>           string testName=nameArray[3];
>           print(testName);
>           // returns something like
> nameArray-6a860c63-62c2-44ce-9fda-6bb43e3c871e-0-0-0-0-0.3
> =======
> 
> I also tried moving the loop in a procedure, and doing
> string nameArray[]=loopNamingProcedure();
> 
> That did not work either.
> Any suggestions ?
> 
> Ben was working on something related, but I still can't do a string
> array initialization in a loop

as far as I can tell, its evaluating this bit:

>           string testName=nameArray[3];

before it gets round to executing the foreach loop, rather than picking up 
on the data dependency.

hmm.

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