Creating Variable Variable Names?

Authoring Twine
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Twine Version: 2.3.9
Story Format: Harlowe

I’ve been trying to figure out a way to use a variable like this —
(if: $“Polity_Voting”_TraitScore)
— where Polity_Voting can be anything from Polity_01 to Polity_99, but haven’t been able to successfully do this in the ways that I’ve tried. Does anyone know if this is doable on Harlowe?

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Some languages let you “nest” variable references, e.g. $$foo would access the variable whose name was in $foo. I didn’t spot any evidence that Harlowe supports such a syntax, but it couldn’t hurt to try.

Otherwise, you will probably want to look at using an array or datamap instead of separate variables.