Aliases in a stringlist

[Vipplin]

I am trying to have a list, say AliasList that holds a bunch of alias names of aliases that I use. Then I want to be able to call/use those aliases through the list.

Let's say I've got 3 aliases These, Those, Any (that each execute several commands) and so AliasList = {These|Those|Any}

What can I type at the command line to execute Those through the list? My end goal is to have meta-aliases like C1, C2, C3 that will execute These, Those, Any respectively. I would then be able to change the members of AliasList directly and/or change the commands in These Those or Any and _without_ changing C1...C3 they would execute the proper commands.

Would #alias C1 {@{@AliasList.1}} work? I haven't tried it yet (no zmud or zuggsoft forum access right now), but anticipate failure (somehow it doesn't look right)... help appreciated.

[Vipplin]

Also, I've been successfully using the @StringList.# to access stringlist data, but using that method to change members seems to not work (StringList.2=Blah). Is #replaceitem the only way to do it?

Thanks again for help on either score...

[Disoputlip]

To the first question:

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#AL a1 {foo;foo2}
#AL a2 {bar;bar2}
@commandArray = {a1|a2}
#AL aa1 {#execute {@commandArray.1}}
#AL aa2 {#execute {@commandArray.2}}

To the second question:

@commandArray.1 does not have what computer people call an lvalue, this means you can't directly assign into it. But the function you found does it.

[Vipplin]

Thanks.