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jslapointe
Junior Member

Canada
15 Posts

Posted - May 04 2004 :  08:54:47 AM  Show Profile
... It was very usefull, and it disapeared.

JS

Stephen
Tomato Guru

United Kingdom
781 Posts

Posted - May 04 2004 :  09:44:11 AM  Show Profile
It was removed because most people found it useless. It's far more common to want to replace a variable with a string literal, than surround an unquoted word with quotes (or vice versa).

In fact, in a previous thread, I twice asked people when this feature is ever useful. I got no answers. I'd still be interested to know.

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feline
Whole Tomato Software

United Kingdom
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Posted - May 04 2004 :  11:18:46 AM  Show Profile
i had a small use for it while writing code to read in a data file.

the datafile holds 14 code lists. each code list is simply pairs of code & value. so i settled on the file format:

CODE_LIST_NAME|<code>|<value>

reading the file one line at a time i was then doing a strcmp on the CODE_LIST_NAME, and adding the code + value to a map. the storage was a map of map's, keyed on enum's, one per code list.

for simplicity my enum's are the same strings as in the data file, so i often wanted the same word both as a string and as an enum.

so this would have been useful while writing this code, but thats about it.

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