Tcl placing a value of a variable as the name a the variable

Question

I\'m having some issues with Tcl. I have a variable that has a string in it. Butt now I want this string to be the name of a next variable.

I have found some similar que

Answer 1

The correct solution is to use $name as first parameter to set

set name "foo"
set $name "bar"
puts $foo ;# -> bar

But if you try to use $name it will yield foo, not bar (Which is what you do in your code according to the comments. I don't know why you need a variable whose name you don't know, but anyway:

puts [set $name] ;# -> bar

will give you the correct thing. The same works with objects:

set topcell [[set $name] topcell]

So I have to ask you: what do you want to do with the dynamic named variable then?

Answer 2

I'm thinking you want upvar to create an "alias" variable name

$ tclsh
% set name Test
Test
% upvar 0 cell $name
% set cell 42
42
% puts $Test
42