From: StephenSykes <jbshaldane@...>
Date: 2004-08-14T05:56:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Question: A method for summing several variables

> ...Unless there is a way to access local variables given their
> name as a String that I don't know of (which is not unlikely at all
> since I'm kinda new to this too ), you're still stuck.

If they can be made instance variables then this works:
$SAFE=3
@name1 = 99
instance_variable_get("@name1") #=>99


Stephen