Posted by paladin.rithe@gmail.com on 11/18/91 11:41

I have no clue if this can be done, but I thought I'd ask anyway. I
have a modular system where I store module information in a database.
One of the types of modules that I have is one that, depending on the
file, could have a different variable name in each file. I have named
the module, and want to name it according to the name of the variable
(ie, modulename Joe, var $Joe) Now, this variable needs to be loaded
into a function, but not inside the file it's located. That file is
basicly a storage for it, and the variable is needed elsewhere. Is
there a way to use the modulename (Joe), and convert it to the variable
name? (func($Joe) in other words)
Another way I could do it is to just have a function that returns the
variable. That would probably be easier.
Is there a way to do this, or is it too complicated? Just using a
function to return a value would be easy.

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