> > I want to convert a string "ballpath1" to a list named ballpath1.
>> I thought
>> value("ballpath1") would make it ballpath1, but it comes out
>> VOID. How can
>> I achieve that?
>
>Well, based on the example you provided below, you would want to say:
>
>list = value(ballPath1)
>
>ballPath1 is a variable that contains the information (whihc may be a
>string), it is not a string itself.
Clint's suggestion is the opposite of what you're asking, I think
anyway. You want to construct the name of the list and then make a
list of that new list variable name. You can Do that:
somenumber = 10
do "set" && "mylists"&somenumber&&"= [1,2,3]"
put mylists10
-- [1, 2, 3]
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