String as array name?

[Kerwin Olfers]

Hi everyone, 

I was wondering if there is a way to take a string from an attribute and 
use it as a variable/array name in inline? 

My situation: 

Participants are prompted with a questions and asked to type their answer 
(which is displayed using the echo functions). 
There are multiple correct answers per question. I know in Eprime 2.0.10 
and up you can simple have the multiple answer comma separated in an 
attribute lis <http://www.pstnet.com/support/kb.asp?TopicID=1400>t, which 
would solve all my problems. 
However we're running 2.0.8 with little hope of updating in the near future.

The solution so far is to store the multiple answers for each question in 
separate arrays. 

e.g. 
question1(1) = "dog"
question1(2) = "labrador"
question2(1) = "fish"
question2(2)=  "tuna"

Then after the question slide, I use an inline to run through the array to 
check if the answer is correct. 
However, since there is a different array for each question, I need a way 
to select the proper array, which hopefully doesn't involve me putting a 
whole list of 'if' statements. 

Something like:  

For Counter = 1 to Ubound(c.getAttrib("arrayName"))
   If c.getAttrib("arrayName")(Counter) = Stimulus.RESP then 
      Stimulus.ACC = 1
   end if 
next 

.. although the above obviously doesn't work in the current form. Does 
anyone know of a way to do this, i.e. use strings stored in attributes as 
variable names in inline (a bit like an eval function)?

Thanks!

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