Actually, I guess he's trying to do something different, perhaps inspired from PHP or Perl. In these languages, you can do something like this: $foo = "What a nice test!"; $a = "foo";
echo $$a; Which then prints out "What a nice test!". Another example of what is possible in PHP: $test['foo'] = "bar"; echo $test['foo']; But: this can only be done in scripting languages. Internally, the PHP interpreter will have to do much the same things you have already posted (setting up a hash-table, doing strcmps etc). Hope that helps (well, it does not help at all actually, it simply says it's not possible in C/C++). TheTinySteini _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
