Trying to set a variable with a concatenated name

[The French Spy]

I'm trying to set the value of a variable with a concatenated name but I get this error
[ERROR] lua/autorun/server/data.lua:44: '<name>' expected near '"data"'
  1. unknown - lua/autorun/server/data.lua:0
this is how I did it
local "data"..DataPosition = data
When I got this error DataPosition was set to 3 and data to a string (a JOJO reference, I believe )

[bigdogmat]

You can't dynamically define variable names like that. You'll have to use a table.

[The French Spy]

Ok, I didn't know that it wasn't possible :/

[Spar]

You can make global variables like that by _G["data"..DataPosition] = data

[bigdogmat]

Keep in mind that just like using global variables, this is in 99% of cases a terrible idea.