Using strings as to reference variables

[K29]

What are you attempting to do in the script? GdScript?

var v1 = "v2"
var v2

some how use v1 to refrence v2

Some folks have mentioned dictionaries and `get` already, but I'd like to take a different approach to help you.

If you're trying to store the name of the second variable in the first one, then you're trying to do something called "meta-programming" (albeit a very simple version of it), that is, act on your source code directly from your source code. That's. . .generally not a good idea and isn't well supported in GDScript outside of things like `get`. There's usually a better way to do what you're trying to do!

I'd recommend telling us what specific thing you're trying to accomplish with this code, and that'd give us the context to figure out if you have what's known as an "XY Problem", where, in trying to solve problem Y, you get stuck on solving problem X, when you could have just solved problem Y directly.

Can you tell us what you're trying to do with this code, maybe give us a bit of code around what you're trying to do?`

Its a 2d game with a sort of room system

rooms are defined with a list

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var example = ["roomimage.png", "roomtoleft", "roomtoright", "roomup", "roomdown"]

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var roomtoleft = ["roomimage.png", "left", "right", "up", "down"]

I cant just put the list of the room to the left in the previous list as it is cyclical and causes an error

I want to use "roomtoleft" to refer to the list named roomtoleft

if i were to just

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currentroom = "roomtoleft"

it would just be the string

[stayathomedev]

Do you have a screenshot of the room setup you're doing?