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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Refering to compound variables with a variable name Post 302740035 by fpmurphy on Wednesday 5th of December 2012 10:56:45 AM
Old 12-05-2012
The thread referred to by Phunk will not help you.

Here is a simple working example:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh93

typeset -C cmp_var1
cmp_var1.field=date

typeset -C cmp_var2
cmp_var2.field=whoami

set -A cmp_varnames cmp_var1 cmp_var2

for cmp in ${cmp_varnames[*]}
do
   nameref my=$cmp.field
   $my
done

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DwtCSTextGetString(3Dwt)												  DwtCSTextGetString(3Dwt)

Name
       DwtCSTextGetString - Retrieves all text from the compound-string text widget.

Syntax
       DwtCompString DwtCSTextGetString(widget)
	    Widget widget;

Arguments
       widget	 Specifies the ID of the compound-string text widget.

Description
       The DwtCSTextGetString function retrieves the current compound-string from the compound-string text widget.  The application is responsible
       for freeing the storage associated with the string by calling XtFree.

Return Values
       This function returns a pointer to a compound string holding all the current text in the compound string text widget.

See Also
       DwtCSText(3Dwt), DwtCSTextCreate(3Dwt), DwtCSTextReplace(3Dwt), DwtCSTextSetString(3Dwt), DwtCSTextGetEditable(3Dwt),  DwtCSTextSetEd-
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