Amber code issues

[marco90a]

Hello everyone.
I found this language after listening to a podcast by daniele.tech (Mte90).

This is my code.

The script should read the arguments and their value in the following way --argument value.

#!/usr/bin/sh

main (args) {
    let options = null
    $touch file.log$ failed {
        echo "error"
    }

    loop k,i in args {
        if i.startsWith("--") {
            let key = i.drop(2)   
            let value = args[k + 1]
            options[key] = value
            echo {key}
            echo {value}
        }
    }

    echo "Argomenti: {options}"
}

When I compile it always returns an error, specifically:

I am open to solutions, advice, suggestions and reprimands :D

[Mte90]

Hi, i.startsWith not exist in amber.

There is the starts_with function https://github.com/amber-lang/amber/blob/master/src/std/text.ab#L118

So the right definitive code is:

#!/usr/bin/env amber

import { * } from "std/text"

main (args) {
    let options = null
    $touch file.log$ failed {
        echo "error"
    }

    loop k,i in args {
        if starts_with(i, "--") {
            let key = slice(i,0,2)   
            let value = args[k + 1]
            options[key] = value
            echo {key}
            echo {value}
        }
    }

    echo "Argomenti: {options}"
}

[marco90a]

Thank you Mte90.

I made your changes but when I import it gives me the error

ERROR Identifier 'import' is a reserved keyword at update.ab:3:1

[Mte90]

Yeah I did the same error #346

#!/usr/bin/env amber

import * from "std/text"

main (args) {
    let options = null
    $touch file.log$ failed {
        echo "error"
    }

    loop k,i in args {
        if starts_with(i, "--") {
            let key = slice(i,0,2)   
            let value = args[k + 1]
            options[key] = value
            echo {key}
            echo {value}
        }
    }

    echo "Argomenti: {options}"
}

[marco90a]

Thank you very much.
I swear I had seen your error, I had tried it but it didn't work....

bha!!!

Anyway thank you very much
now everything is a little bit clearer!!!