Re: create variables in a loop?

 Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam@lisse.NA>:

Hi, >
>
I would like to do something like >
>
for i in USD GBP
do
$i=somevalue
done
>
does not work, of course. >
>
Any idea on how to create (and fill variables through a loop)? >

 Yes.
   for i in USD GBP
   do
     somevalue=... &&
     eval "$i"'="$somevalue"'
   done
 But note, that variable names consisting of only upper case  letters, digits, and underscores are by convention reserved for  the environment.  Therefore I recommend to do    for i in USD GBP
   do
     somevalue=... &&
     eval 'currency_'"$i"'="$somevalue"'
   done
 instead, to get variables like currency_USD, currency_GBP, and so  on.