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Old October 22nd, 2004, 03:29 PM
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Creating a variable dynamically

How would one create a variable with the name pulled from a variable? For example, I have a user enter a form value and the text he/she enters is part of my variable name.

I've tried:
<cfset #FORM.sampleText# = "">
<cfset evaluate("#FORM.sampleText#") = "">

I can't think of what to call this, limiting my search to find the answer.

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<cfset "This#Form.whatever#Var"="">

That works.
I would suggest using arrays though.

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I believe this would work too:

<cfset "#FORM.sampleText#" = "">
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This worked. Thanks!

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