I'm trying to define a variable containing another variable.
Something like this, which doesn't work ...
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#! /bin/ksh -f

var=$1

list="toto tata"
for i in $list
do
     name_$i=$var_$i
done

echo $name_toto
echo $name_tata
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Would you know a way to do this ?

Thanx a lot.
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You have to use "eval".

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Sorry, I don't get it ...
In what way could I use "eval" in my ksh loop ?

Thanx
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#! /bin/ksh -f

var=$1

list="toto tata"
for i in $list
do
     name_$i=$var_$i
done

echo $name_toto
echo $name_tata
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for i in $list
do
   eval name_$i=$var_$i
done

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It is not entirely clear what you want --- do you want, for
example, name_toto to be assigned the value of the $var_toto
variable, or the value of the $var_ variable followed by "toto",
or something else?  I suppose $var_toto makes most sense, even
though it would be uninitialized in this code fragment.  That'd
become:
   eval name_$i=\$var_$i

                --Ken Pizzini

Thanx a lot :-)))

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OL

Thanx a lot :-)))

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OL

In fact, I'm trying to do this :

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# far before ...
points_toto="0"
points_tata="0"

list="toto tata"

# then several times in several ways
for i in $list
do
    case $i in
        toto)   points_toto=`expr $points_toto + 1` ;;
        tata)   points_tata=`expr $points_tata + 1` ;;
        ... etc ...
    esac
done
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my points_* lists are quite long, that's why :-)))

Any idea ?
Thanx again
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#...
for i in $list; do
  eval points_$i="\$((points_$i + 1))"
done

                --Ken Pizzini