From: Sy Ali <sy1234@...>
Date: 2006-09-11T07:11:09+09:00
Subject: Re: patching strings together to make a variable

On 9/10/06, Mike Dvorkin <mike@rubywizards.com> wrote:
> I'm not quite clear what exactly you're trying to achieve, but you
> can perform any operation on $variable by making it part of eval()
> string:
>
> puts eval('$' + 'var' + 'iable += 1')
> #=> 2
> puts eval('$' + 'var' + 'iable *=' + 10.to_s)
> #=> 20

That's definitely what I wanted for one little snippet I was working
on.  Thanks.  =)