Message-ID: <014501c10263$67e9fbd0$6600a8c0@mars> From: "Johan Henriksson" To: References: <9hlpjj$7v8$1 AT wildfire DOT prairienet DOT org> <993950358 DOT 624207 AT queeg DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se> <003a01c10293$4540b080$267a5a8f AT neo> Subject: Re: Variable names to string Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 21:24:08 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > I can get the variable name and convert to string > but i need to get the variable value by the name of the variable(string) I didn't know of the #-operator :P Well, there is no portable way as I know. You have to store them in a way that makes searching for names possible. Or, not portable, I think you can read the symbols in the exe to get pointers to variables. But that's not my table so prepare a grain of salt :)