Creating Variable Names from Strings
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Is there a way to create a Variable with the name of a String?
I would like to do something like this:
name = "VariableName" % String containing the name I want to give it
Variable(name) = 35
And then have a Variable called Variable Name, that contains data
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Dyuman Joshi
on 20 Jan 2024
That is not a good idea, explained in length (,depth and breadth) here - TUTORIAL: Why Variables Should Not Be Named Dynamically (eval)
Why do you want to do that?
Stephen23
on 20 Jan 2024
Edited: Stephen23
on 20 Jan 2024
"Is there a way to create a Variable with the name of a String?"
Yes, if you really want to force yourself into writing slow, complex, inefficient, obfuscated code that is fragile and hard to debug:
However in almost all threads on this forum (and others) related to this topic, creating such variable names dynamically was not a good approach and was easily replaced by much better data design, leading to much better code.
Usually some basic indexing is quite sufficient.
Your question is a good example of this:
The most important question is: how are you planning on processing this data? What is the actual goal that you are trying to achieve?
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Taylor
on 23 Jan 2024
As other users have stated, it is generally not advisable to dynamically generate variable names from a string using eval. However, it is possible to do this with structure field names specifically.
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