Printing a variable to the command line??

[Hardeight]

Is there a way to print the value of a variable to the command line?

 

For instance, I am going through a loop and for each entity in my selection set I am inserting a new block with info from the other blocks that make up the selection set. But what I want to do is before every new block is inserted, change a variable but I have to prompt the user....

 

(setq Curquan (getstring "\n Enter quantity for part number"))...etc, etc, etc,

 

I already have a "PNUM" variable that holds the current number I wish to show up on the command line but I cant figure out how to get it to print on a single line like I want it to.

 

I want the command line output to be...

"Enter quantity for part number 123456:"

 

Any suggestions?

[Lee Mac]

If you are prompting for a "quantity" it is probably better to be using "getreal" or "getint".

 

If you want to use your previously stored variable in the string:

 

 

(setq Curquan (getstring (strcat "\nEnter quantity for part number" (rtos PNUM) ": ")))

Hope this helps

[Hardeight]

LEE!

The strcat function is exactly what I needed.

Thanks for the tidbit. It seems like everyday I find something new in my programming that opens up all kinds of doors.

My command is growing bigger everyday and as soon as I get it done I will post it to to share so maybe someone can get some help from me someday.

Cheers.

[Lee Mac]

No Probs Hard Eight, I'm sure you'll get the hang of it - the hardest part is remembering which commands do what

[flowerrobot]

i just have have trouble remembering