How do I make a dynamic variable name in Lua?

Question

I am new to Lua and am having some difficulties:

I am trying to create dynamic variable names:

local tblAlphabet = {\"a\",\"b\",\"c\",\"d\",\"e\",\"f         


        

Answer 1

it's not clear what you want to do; but if you want to programmatically create lots of global variables, just remember that globals are fields of the _G table:

_G['anyvar'] = 'something'
print (anyvar)