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help with new symbols (or pointers)

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• Subject: [mg92387] help with new symbols (or pointers)
• From: ag <ashutoshgupta.umd at gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:35:19 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

I want to create new symbols inside a module & assign them values=85

e.g. something like: Symbol[=93x=94<>"num"] = 5
It is not working=85

The problem is that I dont know how many symbols I would need (it
could be 5, 50 or 5000)... So I cannot do something like:
Symbol["x"<>"1"];
x1=5;

Is there anything in Mathematica which is like pointers in C
(something which would assign a value to a given location in memory)?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,
AG.