https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/autolisp-using-an-attribue-name-as-a-variable/m-p/5553503#M339006 <P>List of dotted pairs *instead of* creating unique symbols for everything.&nbsp; Consider:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <PRE>(list '("ATTRIB_1" . "Some text") '("ATTRIB_2" . "Other text") '("ATTRIB_3" . "Even more text") )</PRE> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>You can pull indexed information out of that list using (assoc ...).&nbsp; The construction can implement whatever&nbsp;nested list structure suits you - handles, entity names, GUID values, strings, integers, whatever.&nbsp; It's your list, you define how it operates.&nbsp; Use various methods to manipulate, add,&nbsp;and remove contents.&nbsp; If the list is global in scope, you can access it anytime in the document through whatever that list is assigned to.</P> Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:00:52 GMT dgorsman 2015-03-23T17:00:52Z