i want to read my variable names from a file or database.
is it possible to do sth like:

dim rs!name as string [len(rs!name)]

where rs!name is for example "Adress" ?

I know there's a way, but I forgot how.....

You can "kind of" do this using a collection.  Try the following code:

    Dim c As New Collection
    Call c.Add(rs!value,rs!name)        'don't try to put a duplicate
in, though!

Afterwards, to get the value out, you would have to do this:

    Debug.Print c.Item(rs!name)

This is the closest I can think of...

-Rob Hajicek
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Not in VB, but in FoxPro or dBase or Clipper with the dreaded "&"
(=Makroexpansion). But still not a great programming style ;-)

Thomas

Aren'y you always going to find this impossible in a compiled language,
where the variables namespace is not available to you. Once compiled,
variable names don't mean anything

I suppose that if you really wanted to you could set up some kind of binding
structure which would bind you variables to something in a database (a bit
like the DFX mechanism used by DAO for C++), but it would be a lot of work,
and still requires recompilation if the variables change.

Graham