Re: variable names from variables?

["Patrick Mc(avery" <spell_gooder_now@...>]

> It's not entirely clear what you want to do. You can create new global
> variables via _G. But why would you want to create local ones that way,
> why not simply use a table? I'd be interested to hear the use case.
>
> Also, I think you meant to write "for i = 10, 1, -1 do".
>
> Robby
Hi Robby

Thanks, yes "for i = 10, 1, -1 do".

I wanted to generate a bunch of "free standing tables within a namespace 
but not nested in another table. Each table would be a manufacturers 
part number and would start with letters and end with numbers, i.e 
WOT2930, hence the concatenation.



I bet I'll just end up doing this with nested tables or Globals but I 
was also trying to come up with a a DIY data structure in C. I was 
thinking that is I had 2 or more arrays in C within a function I could 
insert a key in one and a value in another and still reference both by 
their numeric keys. I am trying to build a constructor prototype for use 
in both C and Lua.

I might also try to generate a child Lua script by writing this to a 
file instead.

Thanks again-Patrick