Table of Variables

I use a list of variables {x1, x2, x3} to Solve a particular set of equations.

I am now trying to generalise this depending on the number of equations.

I need something along the lines of Table[{"x" i}, {i,1,Length[equations]}] which prints {x1, x2, x3, x4,...} etc.

However, "x" i obviously does not work. Nor does x[[i]] as {x[[1]], x[[2]], x[[3]]} won't work in Solve.

Any quick thoughts?

Thank you.

Answer

Use Symbol to convert a string into a symbol...

Table[Symbol["$x" <> ToString@i], {i, 5}]

{$x1, $x2, $x3, $x4, $x5}

One word of caution. I tend to keep programmatically generated variables prepended with a $ to avoid any collisions with any other variables I might've defined. Just from experience.