safearray conversion...

Does anybody remember a routine we worked on a while back that traversed
into a safearray's depth and converted it into a list?

Thanks,

Devin

 

"DEPTH"?
(vlax-safearray->list var) is this what you are after?

 

Hi Jeff,

Doesn't that function stop at the top level of the array? I thought it
wouldn't traverse into the lists within the list.

 

(defun lisp-value (v)
;; Copyright 2002 Vladimir Nesterovsky.
;; Free for use by any commercial entity with
;; less then $100 million annual revenue.
(cond
((= (type v) 'variant)
(lisp-value (variant-value v)))
((= (type v) 'safearray)
(mapcar 'lisp-value (safearray-value v)))
(T v)
)
)

 

That could be *real* cute. But, um, where do you get the safearray-value
function or is that really the vlax-safearray->list function?

 

safearray-value is a built-in function.

 

Hmm. I found those functions only today after your mentioning. Nice
documentation, eh? So how many years ago did you know about them? :/

 

I first saw (or is that first paid attention to) them
in posts by Ken Alexander and thought the same
thing as you.

 

Agreed about the documentation. It was probably part
of the R14 vlisp package and left undocumented.

I can't remember where I learned about it.
It may have been when Vladimir posted this function
several years ago. Appropos has helped me find
some others(don't ask me though

Regards,
Doug

 

Thanks Luis.

 

Well there ya go. Thanks, Luis, et al. I still have Vital Lisp installed, so
maybe I oughta check out the help a little more. If I find anything of value,
I'll let you know.