How can I clean up this code to be shorter?

Question

I'm using AutoIt:

$1 = GetItemBySlot(1, 1) 
$2 = GetItemBySlot(1, 2) 
$3 = GetItemBySlot(1, 3) 
$4 = GetItemBySlot(1, 4)  
$5 = GetItemBySlot(1, 5) 

The code repeats for 40 lines. How can I shorten it?

Answer 1

You could shorten this by using Assign() and Eval().

For $i = 1 To 5
    Assign($i, GetItemBySlot(1, $i))
Next

That would be 3 lines instead of n lines. During runtime this will be expanded to:

Assign(1, GetItemBySlot(1, 1))
Assign(2, GetItemBySlot(1, 2))
Assign(3, GetItemBySlot(1, 3))
Assign(4, GetItemBySlot(1, 4))
Assign(5, GetItemBySlot(1, 5))

To get the data of those variables you need to use the Eval function. So

For $i = 1 To 5
    Eval($i)
Next

returns the value of GetItemBySlot(1, $i).