Dynamic Variables

[bobh]

1st time appender!

I've used Autoit numerous times and it's a good language. I have a situation where I want to dynamically create a variable with a name equal to the value of some other fixed name variable. For example if $var1 = "bob", then I want to create a variable named "bob". Since the fixed variable can have any value, the newly created variable name is dynamic. I've done this in a few other langauges especially when I'm processing large ini files. I read a key/value set from an INI and then create a variable with the key "name" equal to the key "value".

Can anything like this be done in Autoit??

Thanks

BobH

[pete1234]

Have you looked at IniReadSection? It will store the results in an array which you can refer to without having to create variables for every key

[KaFu]

Take a look at Assign() and it's examples in the help-file...

[bobh]

On the surface, it looks like "Assign" will do what I'm looking for. I scanned the help numerous time and missed it. Thanks.

I'm not using inireadsection because it would create the array elements in the order they exist in the ini file. In my case I cannot assume the keys are always in the same order. Creating variables from the keys means I can just check the value of the variable regardless of the its order in the section.

Thanks again for the quick responses

BobH

[cageman]

You could also create an array in this case first column key name second column key value.

and search the array every time you want a value, you could make a function for it.