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From: "F. Britt Snodgrass" <fbsnodgr@cacd.rockwell.com>
Subject: String to Variable Name Mapping
Date: 1996/04/11
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Date: 1996-04-11T00:00:00+00:00
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Is there an attribute or some other way to use the contents of a string
variable to point to another variable?

For example, if I have the following declarations,

  Int_Var : Integer;
  Str_Var : String (1..32) := "Int_Var";

can I somehow use the contents of Str_Var to make an assignment to 
Int_Var?

I'd like to do this as a way of initializing variables by reading from a 
text file containing the variable name and the desired initial value.

Thanks,
Britt Snodgrass  (mailto:britt@acm.org)