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Creating a variable named by function parameter?

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A likely trivial question: ...

How can a variable best be named from a parameter passed via function? For 
example: ..

function makeup(x){
var ??? = document.title;
}
makeup('stripes');

.. so if makeup('stripes') is run, the variable within the function would 
be named 'stripes'.

More precisely, what I would like to do is to append a string to a partly 
pre-named variable, while the string passed via the parameter would become 
the second part of the variable name, such as:

function makeup(x){
var zebra??? = document.title;
}
makeup('stripes');

.. so the variable name would then become 'zebrastripes'. What is a good 
method of doing this?

Many thanks,
Tuxedo

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Creating a variable named by function parameter? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-12 17:20 +0100
  Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2012-02-12 17:44 +0100
    Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-12 19:26 +0100
      Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-12 21:47 +0100
  Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2012-02-12 18:42 -0800
    Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-13 18:28 +0100
  Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Robert K Quinlivan <rquinlivan@gmail.com> - 2012-02-13 21:02 -0800
    Re: Creating a variable named by function parameter? Tuxedo <tuxedo@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-14 22:55 +0100

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