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Re: Create array using name from string?

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Subject Re: Create array using name from string?
Date Tue, 28 May 2019 17:06:21 +0100
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dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com writes:

> On Tuesday, 28 May 2019 11:03:03 UTC+1, R.Wieser  wrote:
>
>> Forget what I said.   I just noticed that this is the javascript newsgroup, 
>> and not the VBScript one.  My bad.
>
> No matter - your reply only needed translation :-
>
>   S = "Banana"
>   eval("var " + S + " = [2, 9, +new Date()]")
>   Banana // is now a three-element array

Mind you, it's worth pointing out, I think, that this sort of code is
widely regarded as a Very Bad Thing.  The OP is immune to such
suggestions but there may be innocent learners reading this!

-- 
Ben.

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  Re: Create array using name from string? Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 02:11 -0700
  Re: Create array using name from string? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-05-28 11:39 +0200
    Re: Create array using name from string? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-05-28 12:02 +0200
      Re: Create array using name from string? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2019-05-28 05:38 -0700
        Re: Create array using name from string? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-05-28 17:06 +0100
          Re: Create array using name from string? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2019-05-29 00:22 +0200
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