using concat to identify the name of an array

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Kathryn McNeal asked Dec 9, '16 Kathryn McNeal commented Dec 9, '16

using concat to identify the name of an array

I'm trying to create a single process flow that will work for any number of parts. The arrays are named "ArrayA", "ArrayB", "ArrayC", etc. I'm storing the letter of the part (A, B, or C) in a variable named "partName", and then trying to use concat("Array", partName)[1] to look up the first value in ArrayA (or whichever one is being looked at). I'm getting an error because it isn't recognizing the concatenation as the name of an array. Is there a way around this in flexscript?

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FlexSim 16.1.2

array concat

Answer 1 · 2016-12-09T20:00:58Z

Joerg Vogel answered Dec 9, '16 Kathryn McNeal commented Dec 9, '16

I have build a global variable array named testA. I print the values of testA[1]..testA[n] to the output console. This is adapted from this answer from @phil.bobo.

I have put this following code into the OnEntry trigger of a queue. The Item's name is always "A". But you can change it if you like.

string val = concat("test",getname(item),"[",numtostring(getinput(current)),"]");
pr();pf(executestring(val));

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Kathryn McNeal commented · Dec 09, 2016 at 09:50 PM

That's exactly what I needed, thanks!

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