Variable name query.... help required please..

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#1

Hi there,

I’ve had a search for the answer to this but as yet I’ve not found the answer.

Please can someone tell me if it possible to set a variable to a value and have that value used as a variable name?
The pseudo below probably better highlights what Im trying to do.

set var1 to “xyz”
set (a variable with a name of the value in var1) to 99

The second line would create a variable called ‘xyz’ and set it to 99.

Ultimately I’d like to be able to pass a variable name into a handler and have that used as the name of variable.

Thanks in advance,

Nick

#2

The only way I know to do it is with this record hack:

set var to "xyz"
set val to 66
set R to "{" & var & ":" & val & "}"
set myRec to run script R
get myRec's xyz --> 66

You can obviously add other variables to the record this way. I’ve shown only one.

#3

Thanks for your reply and for the code which does exactly what it says on the tin.
I’d found some similar information but didn’t get it to work.

Thanks again. :slight_smile:

Regards,

Nick