Form Variable Name based on the value of another variable in shell script. [ksh]

[Amit Vinod Dali]

I have one requirement as ;

export property_name=$(echo "$input_file");
. ${file_loc}/xyz_type_map.properties;
val=`echo ${property_name}`

xyz_type_map.properties contains data like;

residential=R
business.anonymous=Y
corporate=C
government=G

After

". ${file_loc}/xyz_type_map.properties;

line in the above code, i want to store the value the property is based on the

  property_name  

variable. solution for line number 03 in the first code snippet.

Is there any other alternative to get the "property value" based on the run time "property name" ?

[Stefan Wagner]

I don't see what your problem is, what xyz_type_map.properties has to do with it, and although I don't use ksh, but bash, I suspect your usage of echo is useless.

export property_name="$input_file"
. ${file_loc}/xyz_type_map.properties
val=${property_name}  

So property_name and val contain the same content.

What is property value, which influence is '. ${file_loc}/xyz_type_map.properties' supposed to have?