How to access a specific element of an Array by using strings?
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Johannes Moor
on 23 Mar 2021
Answered: Johannes Moor
on 23 Mar 2021
Propably there already is an answer to my question, but I don't know how to search for my problem.
Let me explain:
Let's suggest I have the Array A = [9, 7, 5, 1, 3, 8, 2, 6, 4]
and I have a string called str1. This string is changing in a loop. Lets suggest in first step str1 = "id1", in second step str1 = "id2" and in last step str1 = "id3". Each of these id's is an variable, for example id1=3, id2=6, id3=4.
Is there any opportunity to access on an specific element of my Array A by using my string?
For example something like A("str1") or A('str1'), which should be in my first loop step A(id1)=A(3)=5, in my second loop step A(id2)=A(6)=8 and in the last step A(id3)=A(4)=1. None of the opportunities I tried worked for me, there are different error types, for example
"Index exceeds the number of array elements (6)." for A('str1)
or
"Unable to use a value of type string as an index." for A("str1").
It has to be an element-access by a string, because I laod my data from different files all into one script.
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