new to powershell still learning. just wondering how would i take a variable and use it to define the name of another variable.

example:
$a = 1

$test"$a" = "testing code"

so that i would have a variable called $test1 that would contain "testing code"???

i also tried $test'$a'  not able to google the right keywords to find anything to help me out :) .

When you embed a variable in a string powershell expand it and you get the value (not the name). Try this:

new-variable -name ("test"+(get-variable a).name) -value "testing code"

thanks for that, you posts are always helpful :).. i couldn't get it work, it was creating a var named $testa instead of $test1 which the 1 is the value of a, so i tried the below code and it worked using -valueonly

$a = 1

new-variable -name ("test"+(get-variable a -valueonly)) -Value "testing code"

$test1

Cool, I though you wanted the variable name :)

New-Variable -name "test$a" -Value "Testing Code"

Exactly! :)