Variables within variable names?

[Sambo]

That probably sounds confusing. What I mean is, is there a way to make a variable that can have a different name depending on the value of another variable? I have variables in all the levels I've made that do the same things, but they need to be independently set in each level. To reduce the amount of coding that is required, I need to have a way to change variable names. For example, if I have this variable:

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saveData:get("myvar_xxx")

(saveData is being used with the new Data class)
Is there a way to make "xxx" a variable?

[Kevsoft]

Yes you can, however there are some restirictions and recommendations:
1.) You can only make global variables out of them, not local variables.
2.) To prevent an overwrite of an already exsisting variable you should put them in a table!

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for key,value in pairs(saveData:get()) do
_G[key] = value
end


or with tables:

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local myVars = {}
...
for key,value in pairs(saveData:get()) do
myVars[key] = value
end


if you want to to check for the "myvar_" prefix you have to use string library.

[Sambo]

I found an even simpler way to do it. I just put this code in lunadll.lua:

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_G["level_code"] = "xxx"

And this in lunaworld.lua:

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saveData:set(level_code .. "-dc-1", "collected")

dc-1 is a variable that indicates if a dragon coin in the level was collected. Since there are 5 dragon coins in each level, it seemed a waste to do all that coding that I had to do before I implemented this.