[Solved] Is it really impossible to make a string into a variable in c++ [closed]

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The CPython implementation – the implementation of Python written in C – uses the C language to implement a certain kind of variable lookup that makes Python behave like Python and not like, say, C or BASIC.

So, you can certainly use C or C++ to implement string-named variable lookup. Just don’t expect the compiler to recognize it, because it’s not part of the C/C++ language. The end product – the compiled executable – will support the concept, though.

For example, in C++, using Boost:

std::map<std::string, boost::variant<std::string, int>> _;

_["name"] = "user";
_["index"] = 1938107;

std::cout << _["name"] << _["index"] << std::endl;

Output:

user1938107

You can also make it interoperate with regular variables known to the compiler, if but there are no off-the-shelf classes to help you there.

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