What is the current preferred method for enumerating the globals in a namespace?

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I used to look at the source for %G for this, but lately Intersystems has stopped distributing the .INT code. I guess in theory I could use an eXecute statement in a loop to check $D on every legal global name but that's silly and unreasonably slow.

So what is currently the right way to do it?

DAiMor and Stephen Canzano's answers both work. – psr Mar 21 '12 at 20:36 — psr, Mar 21 '12 at 20:36

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 21 '12 at 12:53

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You could always use the class query in %SYS.GlobalQuery.

answered Mar 21 '12 at 12:53

Stephen Canzano

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This is actually preferred method because traversing ^$GLOBAL is slow. Regarding source code, you may look at ^%SYS.GD – SSH Apr 22 '12 at 10:26

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '12 at 20:29

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use special global variable ^$GLOBAL

for example:

s global=""
f { 
s global=$o(^$G(global))
  q:global=""
  zw global
}

answered Mar 21 '12 at 20:29

DAiMor

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What is the current preferred method for enumerating the globals in a namespace?

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