Re: Turning a string into a variable

["Ashwin Hirschi" <deery@...>]

> Let's say:
> 
> x = "foo"
> 
> But now I want to see if foo itself is an assigned variable (i.e. foo
> ~= nil  --- but since I don't know the sting contained in x, I can't
> do this directly)  

Try getglobal(x).

AH.