Re: how to indirect access a variable

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Yanghui Bian" <address@hidden> writes:

  yb> blocks := a b

  yb> a_property := 0 1 2 3

  yb> b_property := 2 3 8 9

  yb> How can I get a list of property in the first column for the all
  yb> the blocks?

  yb> I try to use the foreach as below:

  yb> block_properties := $(foreach block, $(blocks), $(block)_property)

Not quite.  $(block)_property expands to the _names_ of the variables;
so the result will be:

    a_property b_property

You want to expand to the _values_ of those variables, so you need an
extra variable reference:

    block_properties := $(foreach block, $(blocks), $($(block)_property))
                                                    ^^                  ^

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