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[Anonym]

Similar to that you can set the contents of a variable, I think it would be a nice feature to be able to set the contents of data structures (= lists and tables) internally within a bot WITHOUT reading files.

Reason: if I for instance distribute a bot freely, then I want to make sure that it works at all times in the ways I can control. If I have the contents of data structures in external files only, they can be altered. I am specifically thinking of things like translation tables between language and language codes, country and country codes etc. It is of course possible to store the files on my own host, but that would create a call to my host for just fetching some simple/static data.

To my knowledge this is not possible to do today.

[odeesuba]

It is possible now , just follow this code

add list to list(%Alphabet List, $list from text("A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z", " "), "Delete", "Global")
add list to table as column(&Alphabet Table, 0, 0, %Alphabet List)
add list to table as column(&Alphabet Table, 0, 1, %Alphabet List)

Although I would like a $Table from text function, so I do not have to have many add list to table commands.

What I do sometimes is have the table in a variable , then write it to file and use the "create table from file" command. Then I would delete the file.

It works , but $Table from text will be easier.

[Anonym]

Great! I didn't think of that!

Thanks a lot!

[LoWrIdErTJ - BotGuru]

table from text is easy.

comma separate your values, and create table, from a variable with the set content comma delimited

[odeesuba]

table from text is easy.

comma separate your values, and create table, from a variable with the set content comma delimited

How do you do it without writing to file?

Can you give me a code example?

Thanks

[Anonym]

Yes, I wonder that too. I have tried a lot of different things now, but nothing ends up in a table.

TJ, please guide us with your wisdom.


Thanks!

[LoWrIdErTJ - BotGuru]

sorry would have to save to file, load it, then delete it..

by writing the temp file you can then load it into the table currently.
create table from text, or create table from list would be great.