$map

Usage: $map(name,code[,separator])
Category: multi-value
Implemented: Picard 2.3

Description:

Iterates over each element found in the multi-value variable name and updates the value of the element to the value returned by code, returning the updated multi-value variable. A literal value representing a multi-value can be substituted for name, using the separator (or a semicolon followed by a space “; ” if not passed) to coerce the value into a proper multi-valued variable.

For each loop, the element value is first stored in the variable _loop_value and the count is stored in the variable _loop_count. This allows the element or count value to be accessed within the code script.

Note

You cannot save the code to a variable and then pass the variable to the function as %code% because it will be evaluated when it is assigned to the variable rather than during the loop.

Example:

The following statements will return the values indicated:

$set(foo,First:A; Second:B)
$map(%foo%,$upper(%_loop_count%=%_loop_value%))    ==>  "1=FIRST:A; SECOND:B"
$map(%foo%,$upper(%_loop_count%=%_loop_value%),:)  ==>  "1=FIRST:2=A; SECOND:3=B"

$setmulti(bar,First:A; Second:B)
$map(%bar%,$upper(%_loop_count%=%_loop_value%))    ==>  "1=FIRST:A; 2=SECOND:B"
$map(%bar%,$upper(%_loop_count%=%_loop_value%),:)  ==>  "1=FIRST:2=A; SECOND:3=B"

$map(First:A; Second:B,
    $upper(%_loop_count%=%_loop_value%))           ==>  "1=FIRST:A; 2=SECOND:B"

$map(First:A; Second:B,
    $upper(%_loop_count%=%_loop_value%),:)         ==>  "1=FIRST:2=A; SECOND:3=B"