AMEMBERS()

Purpose

Function to load the properties of an object into an array

Syntax

AMEMBERS(<array-name>,<object-ref>])

See Also

ACLASS(), ADDPROPERTY(), CLASS, COMPOBJ(), CREATEOBJECT(), DEFINE CLASS, DODEFAULT(), METHOD, NEWOBJECT(), REMOVEPROPERTY(), SET CLASSLIBRARY, WITH

Description

The AMEMBERS() function is used to load the names of the properties of the specified object into an array and return the number of properties loaded (and hence the number of array elements).

The <array-name> array will be created if it does not already exist.

Example

class myclass
  property last_name
  property first_name
  property email 
endclass
 
omyclass = new myclass()
dialog box str(amembers(myarray,omyclass))   && displays 3
display memory       && shows the array contents

Products

Recital Database Server, Recital Mirage Server, Recital Terminal Developer