Re: Convert string to variable name?

[Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@...>]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:51 PM, iain morland <iain@iainmorland.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've created a table that contains a series of sequentially numbered
> variables. I'd like to retrieve those variable names from the table, in
> order to set an attribute that exists for those variables in the
> implementation of Lua that I'm using (5.1 with custom extensions in MOTU
> MachFive), but I'm having problems because Lua seems to interpret the names
> as strings, rather than as variables. I'm sure the fault is my lack of
> understanding, rather than a problem in Lua. :-s

If your variables are global variables they are are fields in a _G
table. You can easily get them like this

var= 123
print( _G["var"] )

--Leo--