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Posted: **Thu Jul 25, 2013 5:43 am**

I have a multidimensional array that is extremely long and prone to syntax errors. I would like to take the keys at a particular dimension and make them locals for processing, and store their array value as the value for that variable. The problem is that I am creating variable names from variables themselves, which results in a 'bad destination' error. Is there a good way around this?

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.	.	.	[dimension] => Array
                  .	.	.	.	[lion] => courage
                  .	.	.	.	[scarecrow] => brains
                  .	.	.	.	[tinman] => heart

so we would end up with a variable called 'theLion' which hold value 'courage', and so on.

Posted: **Sun Jul 28, 2013 6:29 am**

try the "do" command and construct the variable declaration using &.

Posted: **Sun Jul 28, 2013 10:33 am**

You can use variable for keys:

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put "lion" into temp
put "courage" into temp2
put temp2 into myArr[temp]

This way you created myArr["lion"]="courage".

Posted: **Sun Jul 28, 2013 3:16 pm**

Hi.

I don't think anyone here is getting what you want, including me. Does this address your query?

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on mouseUp
   put "wet" into myArray[test][testWet][sponge]
    put "up" into myArray[test][testUp][down]
    put "dry" into myArray[test][testDry][sand]
     put "sideWays" into myArray[test][testUp]["down"]

If you step through the script, you can see that the value for "testUp" in the array is set, and then changes at the level "down".

Craig Newman

EDIT

Actually, I am not sure I actually did anything significant.

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