Simple Syntax for Looping Through a List of Variables? Topic is solved

[MaxAstro]

Okay, in pseudocode this is what I want to do:

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For each VariableNameString in Array
	FileAppend, % VariableNameString . "=" . %VariableNameString% . "`n", % SaveFile.txt

Basically the idea is I have an array that contains strings with the variable names of variables I want to save the contents of to a file. Assuming the array contains [ "UserName", "UserMode", "NumberOfThings" ], then at the end the contents of the file would look like this:

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UserName=MyUser
UserMode=2
NumberOfThings=15

Is there a straightforward way to do this? I looked at the documentation for a for-loop and I can't figure out how to make it do what I want.

EDIT: I figured this out, I think. I thought that you had to use a key value pair object; I didn't realize a normal array would work, and I also didn't realize that "key" is the index of the array, not the value at that index. Which... should be obvious I suppose... I'm just bad at objects. ^^;

If anyone wants working code for this, it looks like this:

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VarsToSave := ["Variable1", "Variable2", "Variable3"]
For Key, Value in VarsToSave
	FileAppend, % Value . "=" . %Value% . "`n", % SaveFile.txt

Ironically my pseudocode was really close...

[FanaticGuru]

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UserName=MyUser
UserMode=2
NumberOfThings=15
VarList := ["UserName", "UserMode", "NumberOfThings"]
for key, Var in VarList
	MsgBox % Var " = " %Var%

FG

Edit: In the 2 minutes it took me to post you edited with your solutions. Which is very very close to mine.

[MaxAstro]

For anyone who is curious, the second half of this is to put the following in the autoexecute section of the script:

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IfExist, % SaveFile	; Load saved items if there are any
{
	Loop, Read, % SaveFile
	{
		ValueStep := false
		Loop, Parse, A_LoopReadLine, =
		{
			if (!ValueStep)
				VarToCreate = %A_LoopField%
			else
				%VarToCreate% = %A_LoopField%
			ValueStep := !ValueStep
		}
	}
	FileDelete, % SaveFile
}

Do that, and any variable listed in the VarsToSave array will be saved when the script is exited, and reloaded when it is opened again. Handy.

[anidealworld]

What about an array of strings? What is the syntax for that?
i.e. I can't get this to work:

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urls[test1] ="asdasd,asdasdasd,asdasdasd,asdasd"
urls[test2] ="zxczxc,zxczxc,zxczxczxc"
value:= urls[test1]
msgbox, %value%

Really what I what I want to do is use the comma as a delimiter and search each string similar to above, but only in "test1" or "test2", etc. (I have 10+ in my actual script) depending on what variable is passed to the function. But I can't get the syntax right.

[Xtra]

But I can't get the syntax right.

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urls := {}

urls["test1"] := "asdasd,asdasdasd,asdasdasd,asdasd"
urls["test2"] := "zxczxc,zxczxc,zxczxczxc"
value := urls["test1"]
msgbox, %value%

HTH

[anidealworld]

Thanks so much!