Is there a way to set an expression that is a variable to another expression?

Maybe that is a bit unclear so let me just show you some code:

msg ("Variable?")
GetInput() {
  player.tempvar = result
  SetForegroundColour ("LightGreen")
  msg ("What should {player.tempvar} be set to?")
  GetInput() {
    player.tempvarname = result
    SetForegroundColour ("LightGreen")
    msg ("{player.tempvar} has been set to {player.tempvarname}. (This does currently not work like it is supposed to.")
    player.tempvar = player.tempvarname
    MovePlayer (Cheddar set stuff)
  }
}

So what I want to do is to make it so that player.tempvar is not player.tempvar but whatever I put in the first input box, is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance!

player.tempvar = player.tempvarname

That gets the value of player.tempvarname (the second string entered), and sets player.tempvar to it.

I assume what you're trying to do is use the first input as a variable name. This gets a little more complex.

You can't do this with local variables. But I can't think of any situation where it would be helpful to do that; because variables are only meaningful if they're in your code. If this is really what you want to do, it might make more sense to make a stringdictionary to hold your value… but that would really depend on why you want to do it.

But you can do this with attributes. Something like this would work:

msg ("Attribute?")
GetInput() {
  player.tempattr = result
  msg ("What should player.{player.tempattr} be set to?")
  GetInput() {
    player.tempvalue = result
    msg ("player.{player.tempattr} will be set to {player.tempvalue}.")

    // set takes three parameters:
    //   1 - an object
    //   2 - the name of an attribute
    //   3 - the value to set that attribute to
    set (player, player.tempattr, player.tempvalue)
  }
}

Thank you, that worked like a charm.

Much appreciated!