Name:

execute$()  execute a user defined subroutine, which must return a string

Synopsis:

print execute$("foo$","arg1","arg2")

Description:

execute$ can be used to execute a user defined subroutine, whose name is specified as a string expression.

This function allows to execute a subroutine, whose name is not known by the time you write your program. This might happen, if you want to execute a subroutine, which is compiled (using the compile command) as late as of execution of your program.

Note however, that the execute$-function is not the preferred method to execute a user defined subroutine; in almost all cases you should just execute a subroutine by writing down its name within your yabasic program (see the example below).

Example:

print execute$("foo$","Hello","world !")
sub foo$(a$,b$)
  return a$+" "+b$
end sub
          
The example simply prints Hello world !, which is the return value of the user defined subroutine foo$. The same could be achieved by executing:

print foo$(a$,b$)
	    
So this example does not really need the execute$-function; see compile for examples, that do.

Related: adding code during execution, compile, execute, eval, eval$