From: Julian Fitzell <julian-ml@...4.com>
Date: 2001-10-20T01:34:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22758] Re: Creating variables with dynamic names ?

var_name = "myVar"
eval "#{var_name} = 10"
myVar			     => 10


Julian

On 20/10/2001 at 1:25 AM Andrew Cowan wrote:

>I am somewhat new to Ruby, coming from about 10 years of Perl
>programming, 
>6 professionally.
>
>In perl, it is easy to create new variables with variable names that are 
>defined in another variable. For example:
>
>$var_name = "myVar";
>${"$var_name"} = 10;
>
>would define a new variable $myVar the value 10.
>
>Is there a way to do this in Ruby? I suspect there must be but haven't
>been 
>able to figure this out yet.
>
>Thanks for any help you can offer!
>
>Andy
>
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