Is there a function or a method to extract a variable's name into a string

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I'm trying to come up with a function to help me while I write other lisp programs that will plot variables that are points into autocad with nodes and text stating what variable it is, currently I'm using a foreach function and assigning a number to each point that is plotted, since I know the order of which I assigned the variables into the list I know which number resembles what variable. But if I had a way to extract the variable name into a variable itself, it would make this little utility much nicer.

Here is what I'm using now

(setq counter 0) (foreach f (list ;|Enter points|; ) ;enter points (command "point" f) (setq counter (+ counter 1)) (command ".text" f "" counter "") )

Also are there any other AutoLISP editors out there that might be better than the one that comes with Acad 2002?

Thanks

bestafor · Accepted Answer

HiHo;If I understand you, you want to plot a X,Y,Z point with a number and adescriptor.If that is the case there are a number of civil programs, many for free,that will dojust that.  Search  for a point importer.  It will read afile and placethe points at the  appropriate location.  If you can't find it let me knowand I will sendit to you in a email.

TomD · Answer

Not sure how your points are being collected, but why not record the name with the point, maybe a sub-list format, like:

( (varname (x y z)) (varname (x y z)) .... )

Not that I've seen. I still use notepad and a similar text editor. There was a dos program called Ally, which I thought was perfect, but to my knowledge, they stopped development long ago. It used color coded parens, each level of nesting was a different color.

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