Variable names from strings?

[Illspirit]

hey,

i'm pretty sure this cant be done, but just makin sure...

is it possible to declare and reference a variable that has a name taken from a string?

this sort of thing...

Dim strString as string
strString = "varVariable"
Dim [B]strString[/B] as variant

[vbgladiator]

Not that I know,

Why would you want to anyways?

[Hydrox0r]

New project of ours

We're not releasing any public details yet... gotta make sure it'll work

Hydrox0r

[Hydrox0r]

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(please)

Hydrox0r

[jdc2000]

You can't do that directly, but you can achieve the same effect. If you want to have a set of user-defined variables and user-defined names for them, you can do something like the following:

Dim strUserDefinedVariable(100,2) As String

' Then, use strUserDefinedVariable(intVar,1) to hold the User Specified variable name,
' And use strUserDefinedVariable(intVar,2) to hold the corresponding value for that User Specified variable name.

I've used this technique when writing my own script file or command file interpreter programs. It allows the user to make up and use his own variable names (and corresponding values for them), while I can store and keep track of them so they can be referenced as needed.

[Everso]

Now this if going back a bit but ...



I rember from various other languages I have used in the past there is a function - normaly called something like eval - that does this sort of thing.

Everso

[Hydrox0r]

Hmm... can't find anything like that in VB... it's kinda an object orientated thing I'm trying to do - like:

(this doesn't work)

Dim strVar
strVar = "testing"

Dim strVar as New Form1
(need a variable named as the contents of the strVar variable)

so the finished product would be a new instance of Form1 referenced by the variable "testing".