gcoll: a pedestrian garbage collector and workspace cleaner

garbage-collects workspace variables into a structure and optionally deletes those floating variable

this little routine is a garbage collector that helps to clean up a messy workspace.

it collects those numerous variables (or selected members of them) either from the base's or caller's workspace into a handy structure, where each fieldname represents a variable with its contents set to the variable's value.

optionally, it will remove the variable after(!) assignment -or- keep only those that are selected.

when called within a function with the option
s=gcoll('-caller');
it collects all current variables used within that function; other options and/or patterns apply.

look at the accompanying image and type
help gcoll
at the command prompt for more insights.