[fpc-pascal] specify variable name with string variable

[Dmitry Boyarintsev]

associative array?

On Sunday, July 7, 2019, James Richters <james at productionautomation.net>
wrote:

> This might sound silly,  but is it possible to somehow specify a variable
> with a string containing the name of the variable?
>
> For example:
>
> Var
>    MyVariable1 : Word;
>    MyVariableName : String;
>
> Procedure ShowVariable(Variablename);
> Begin
> Writeln(Variablename,' = $', inttohex(    (Somehow get the value of the
> variable specified by the name here ) ,4));
> End;
>
> Begin
> MyVariableName:= 'MyVariable1';
> ShowVariable(MyVariableName);
> End.
>
> Is such a thing possible?
>
> James
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