Referencing Dynamically Script Created AI

[meatball 25]

I'm working on a script for a mission that will iterate multiple times and dynamically create and place AI in random locations. I'm just not able to figure out how to assign those units a variable name that I can watch for triggers, etc. In a really simplified form, the script looks something like this:

aiUnit = 0;

while {true} do {

aiUnit = aiUnit + 1;

_newAI = format ["aiUnit%1",aiUnit];

_aiSpawned = _group createunit [_unitType,_position];

sleep 300;

};

The question is, what's the simplest way that I can use the _newAI variable to reference the _aiSpawned unit? For example, I'd like the first unit created by the script to be able to be referenced by the variable name "aiUnit1" so I can then do things like create a trigger watching for "!alive aiUnit1".

Any ideas, or is there a better way to do this?

[Tajin 348]

aiUnit = 0;

while {true} do {

aiUnit = aiUnit + 1;

_newAI = format ["aiUnit%1",aiUnit];

_aiSpawned = _group createunit [_unitType,_position];

missionNamespace setVariable [_newAI, _aiSpawned, true];

sleep 300;

};