I think the best way to do that is to use a global class with a static member variable. Among other advantages, you dont have to do any string to int/float conversion, if you accidentally mistype your variable names the compiler will complain, and its a lot more straightforward. For converting ASCII strings to ints or floats, look at the std.atoi () and std.atof() functions. spencer On Jun 1, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Kassen wrote:

Hi list,

Is there a known issue with std.setenv() ?

For me on XP sp1

std.setenv("foo", "bar");

Returns a zero and doesn't actually set anything.

What I want to acomplish is the following; I want to have one shred that calls in a set of other shreds that all sync in the style of the otf examples but I'd like to set a environment variable that tells them what our bpm will be.

Also; do I understand correctly that the only way of turning a string into a int or float is by abusing the acii numbers? Even if I happen to know the string is a number?

As I type this I just realised it might be a lot more practical to stop postponing reading up on global classes, still it looks like std.setenv() is malfuctioning.

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