Using strings as to reference variables

[K29]

how do I use strings to reference variables?

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get()

[stayathomedev]

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

[TheBigExist]

I'm pretty sure it's the 'set()' function that you're looking for. To change the variable, just put

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set("your_string", value)

This would let you change the value, but if you want to use a string to use the value, use the 'get()' function.

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get("your_string")

[TheArduinoGuy]

Question unclear. What exactly are you trying to do?

[jgodfrey]

Depending on the details, you might also find a Dictionary to be useful. For example:

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var myVars = {"string1": "John Doe", "string2": 101}

Then, you could reference one of the above items using something like:

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myVars.string1

...or...

myVars["string1"]

[K29]

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

var v1 = "v2"
var v2

some how use v1 to refrence v2

[stayathomedev]

var v1 = "v2"
var v2
some how use v1 to refrence v2

You can always set a variable to equal another variable if they are the same type.

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var v1 = "string"
var v2 = v1 # v2 = "string"

[b4ux1t3]

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?`

[Owen Lloyd]

Interesting question. That sounds like using pointers, by ref, etc.

Does gdscript provide a way to use pointers?

[agrimminck]

Interesting question. That sounds like using pointers, by ref, etc.

Does gdscript provide a way to use pointers?

it does when you use dictionaries, and if i'm not mistaken, they work for arrays aswell