From: "DEBAUN, STEVE [AG-Contractor/2400]" <steve.debaun@...>
Date: 2006-05-26T08:29:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Retreiving column values from a variable column name

text = shape.send(p)

essentially calls a method named 'p'.  So:

'foo'.send('upcase') => 'FOO'

sd

> however I am going to loop through a number of columns and the column
> specified after the (.) will be a variable or string.
> 
> for p in particulars
>   text = shape.p
> end