Re: How can I evaluate code?

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 11:54 PM MineMoreGames <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I’ve got the Pike code listening to some input from a program, I want to evaluate code based on the input,
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> (Assume security is unnecessary)
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> How can I do that? And of course I want the code that the program has access to where it gets evaluated.
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>

The normal way would be one of the compile() functions - for instance,
compile_string(). You give it a string of text equivalent to what
you'd have in a .pike file, and you get back a program, which you can
instantiate to an object. That can then contain whatever functions you
like. Simple example:

program p = compile_string(sprintf(#"mixed foo() {
    return %s;
}", your_code));
mixed result = p()->foo();

ChrisA