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=={{header|Perl}}==

<lang perl>print "Enter a variable name: ";
$varname = <STDIN>; # type in "foo" on standard input
chomp($varname);
$$varname = 42; # when you try to dereference a string, it will be
# treated as a "symbolic reference", where they
# take the string as the name of the variable
print "$foo\n"; # prints "42"</lang>


=={{header|Python}}==
=={{header|Python}}==

Revision as of 18:26, 2 June 2009

Task
Dynamic variable names
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.

Create a variable with a user defined name.

AutoHotkey

<lang AutoHotkey> InputBox, Dynamic, Variable Name %Dynamic% = hello ListVars MsgBox % %dynamic%  ; says hello </lang>

Common Lisp

<lang lisp>

(defmacro set-string (string value) 
 `(setf 
   ,(read-from-string string) 
   ,value))
(set-string "dynamicA" "hello")

(print dynamicA) </lang>

Perl

<lang perl>print "Enter a variable name: "; $varname = <STDIN>; # type in "foo" on standard input chomp($varname); $$varname = 42; # when you try to dereference a string, it will be

               # treated as a "symbolic reference", where they
               # take the string as the name of the variable

print "$foo\n"; # prints "42"</lang>

Python

<lang python>>>> n = raw_input("Enter a variable name: ") Enter a variable name: X >>> exec n + " = 42" >>> X 42</lang>

Tcl

<lang Tcl>puts "Enter a variable name:" gets stdin varname set $varname 0</lang>