Re: Renaming variables using strings

Kristjan Tabri wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
> I have a big database with several variables inside. Now I would
> like
> to assign some other names for the variables. One script makes a
> strings of these variable names according to some routine. For
> example, i have a variable in database called F101 and the script
> makes a string 'F101'. I would like to rename the variable F101 as
> dataF. As I have the variable name just as an automatically
> generated string (by ['F','101'], I do not know how to rename the
> variable. Commands dataF='F101' and dataF=str2num('F101') do not
> work
> in such a case. When dataF='F101' is used the existing variable is
> just rewritten and obtains a value of the string and
> str2num('F101')
> does not work as F101 cannot be turned into a number.
>
> Any idea how to do it?
>
> Regards,
> kristjan

use eval
str='F101'
eval(['DataF=',str,';'])

NBT
.

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