Evaluating a String as code -djb

Derek Brans brans at nerdonawire.com
Sun Feb 9 06:22:59 UTC 2003


Thanks for the great responses.
On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 03:54 PM, Nevin Pratt wrote:

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> This might be useful to you:
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> HTMLformatter evalEmbedded: ' This is a test of <? | foo | foo := 
> ''This string''. foo asUppercase. ?> to see if it works ' with: 
> HttpRequest new
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> Nevin
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> Derek Brans wrote:
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>> Given a string, is there anyway to evaluate its contents as code in 
>> the current context?
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>> Essentially I want to write a function that given a string like this:
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>> ' This is a test of < | foo | foo := self bar. foo upperCase. > to see 
>> if it works '
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>> returns a string like this:
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>> 'This is a test of Something to see if it works'
>>
>> Thank you in advance,
>> Derek
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