Dynamically naming variables

[target_practice 163]

Is it possible to alter the name of a variable using a different variable?

For instance, if I had a script that returned some data to a variable, what would I need to do so said variable's name could be suffixed by a string passed to the script?

[Grumpy Old Man 3551]

20 minutes ago, target_practice said:

Is it possible to alter the name of a variable using a different variable?

For instance, if I had a script that returned some data to a variable, what would I need to do so said variable's name could be suffixed by a string passed to the script?

 

You can't rename variables, only create new variables with a name depending on the input data, which doesn't make sense in any case I can think of.

Wouldn't it be better to use a variable holding a string and adjust the string depending on input data?

 

What are you trying to do?

 

Cheers

[target_practice 163]

I'd ideally want a script to declare a variable as true under a certain conidtion, with part of variable's name being determined by one of the arguments.

[Dedmen 2728]

1 minute ago, target_practice said:

I'd ideally want a script to declare a variable as true under a certain conidtion, with part of variable's name being determined by one of the arguments.

You can use the setVariable command to set a variable by a name.

 

myFunc = {
    params ["_varSuffix"];

    missionNamespace setVariable ["condition"+_varSuffix, true];
};

"_test" call myFunc; //Variable condition_test will be set to true.