[Stackoverflow] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] How to show an unknown list of variables and their values, if possible

[Dominique]

As mentioned before in some questions with "Progress-4GL" and "OpenEdge" tags, I'm working with AppBuilder and Procedure editor. As a result, the debugging possibilities are extremely limited: for knowing the value of a variable, I need to do show them on screen, something like this:

MESSAGE "temp1=[" temp1 "], temp2=[" temp2 "]" VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX.

I can also put that information in a logfile, but that's not the main point here.

I would like to write a procedure, which can handle this, something like:

PROCEDURE SHOW_VARIABLES_AND_VALUES (INPUT I1, INPUT I2, ...):
  1. <put parameter names and values together inside one string> => """I1="" I1"
  2. <do this for all input parameters (the number is unknown)> => """I1="" I1, ""I2="" I2, ..."
  3. <how to use this (MESSAGE VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX, LOG, ...) there I'll know what to do>

Does anybody know how to handle the fist two points (put variable name and value together and handle an unknown number of input parameters)?

Thanks in advance

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