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RE: Converting a string to a variable name

• Posted by irv at take.maxleft.com Jul 28, 2002
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rubis at fem.unicamp.br wrote:
> Hi all;
> 
> Direct to the point...
> 
>  I'm writing a program that uses a lot of sequencial variables:
> 
> a1, a2, a3...
> 
> and give values for then:
> 
> a1=1, a2=2, a3=3 ...(for example)
> 
> 
> I would like to do this:
> 
> atom a1,a2,a3
> sequence s
>  for x=1 to 3 do
> 
>   s=sprintf("%d",x)
>   "a"&s=x                           -- atribute a "variable variable" name 
>   
> a variable value  :>))
> 
>  end for
> 
> but this does not work because "a"&s is a string, not a variable.
> 
> How I can convert a string to a variable name ??

You can't, but is there any reason you cannot use an array of 
atoms?

object a
  a[1] = 1
  a[2] = 2
   ...etc

for x = 1 to 3 do
  a[x] = ??

Irv