Assign a value to a symbol created by concat

Hi Martin

The function you are looking for is

set

In addition, you should consider whether this is the right approach. Perhaps you should be using an array or a hash table instead? Symbols are not garbage collected, so unless there's a very good reason, creating new symbols as a pseudo-array as you've described is not the best idea...

Andrew

AurelBuche,

It works. Thanks!

Martin

AurelBuche,

Another question, how to get the value assigned to the symbol by set(concat('a 1) 1)? get() function doesn't work.

for(i 1 9
    println( get( concat('a i)) )
)

Thanks!

Martin

for(i 1 9
    (println (symeval concat('i k)))
)

Hi Martin,

You should really consider Andrew's answer above

Constructing symbols is usually a bad habit.

It is hard to understand when you share your code and tricky to debug as you have to deduce where the symbols were built

If you are trying to access the stored values using `get ` probably means that using tables or DPLs is more suitable

Cheers

Aurélien