how to use matches as variable name

[mui]

Hi I am new to mudlet and am trying to make an alias setvariable xxx yyy where xxx is the name of an existing variable and yyy is the new value I wish to assign it.

I have tried
matches[2] = matches[3] , which doesn't work

as well as,
{matches[2]) = matches[3] , which gives me syntax error.

Hope to get some help here. Thanks!

[SlySven]

You should be able to achieve the same result by doing this DIRECTLY in the command line:

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lua xxx = yyyy

F.Y.I. This uses the "run lua code" alias defined in the "run-lua-code-v4" that is one of the default items that gets inserted into a new connection profile! Perhaps, when we both understand how that works one of us might be better able to answer the question.

[Jor'Mox]

The problem is that your matches are strings, and variable names are... something else. So you need to use the loadstring function, like this: loadstring(matches[2] .. " = " .. matches[3])

[mui]

Both solutions work! The commandline alias seems very useful. Thanks guys!

[Oneymus]

As another alternative, you can index into the _G table (Lua's global table) with a string. So, you could do something like...

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_G[matches[2]] = matches[3]