From: hemant <gethemant@...>
Date: 2007-07-15T12:23:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Contents of variable as variable name

On 7/15/07, Rob Kerfia <redct@openfish.info> wrote:
> I know that sounds a bit crazy, but is there a way to do that?
>

One way of doing it is:

irb(main):025:0> a = "foo"
"foo"
irb(main):026:0> eval "#{a}=1"
1
irb(main):027:0> foo
1

Although eval is normally discouraged and must be used sparingly.