arrays - Incremental variable definition

Question

I want to automatically define incrementing variable names.

So instead of this:

$Var1 = 'This is variable one :P'
$Var2 = 'This is variable two :P'

I'd like this (pseudo code):

For $i = 1 to UBound($People)-1     
    **$var[$i]** = GUICtrlCreateCheckbox($var[$i], 24, $y, 200, 17) 
    $y = $y + 25 
Next

Does anyone know how?

The code should make as many checkboxes as defined in an array and every checkbox should have its own variable.

Answer 1

You're looking for the Assign function!

Check out this example:

For $i = 1 To 5
    Assign('var' & $i, $i);
Next

Then you can access these variables with:

MsgBox(4096, "My dynamic variables", $var1)
MsgBox(4096, "My dynamic variables", $var3)
MsgBox(4096, "My dynamic variables", $var5)

Obviously, var2 and var3 can be utilised too :)

Edit: For clarity, what you would have been doing, if you had done it properly, was storing those values in an array - which is the best method for this kind of thing.