PAC Control 101: Why/when/how would I use POINTERS?

[mstjohn]

Not so crazy idea, I wish we had a better answer!
This is not EXACTLY what you’re looking for (and if you change the names of things, this will break), but there is one option of using GetPointerFromName, as discussed in this post:

Optoscript Eval() function?

Does Optoscript have something equivalent to an Eval() function? I haven’t been able to find anything. For those unfamiliar, Eval lets you pass expressions or operators in a string, and act on them. As an example, the old project I’ve taken over makes use of very generically named tables, Digi0, Digi1, Digi2, etc. Dozens upon dozens of them, and they have the same set of operations performed on them. Currently it goes something like this: Digi0[23] = 4; Digi1[23] = 4; ... Digi45[23] = 4; Wh…