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Old 01-25-2008
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variable part of variable name
Greetings

I am having a hard time trying to figure out how to use a variable as part of another variables name.

For instance:

A="PRE"
eval ${A}_DAY=`date +%d`
echo ${A}_DAY
echo $PRE_DAY

output:
PRE_DAY
25

I would appreciate some help with this.