Setting var returns command not found

[jdh239]

I have the following function, and it appears to set the var correctly, but then tries and executes the line as a command. Anyone know how to keep it from doing that?

 SMALL_FILE_PERCENTAGE=88
MEDIUM_FILE_PERCENTAGE=10
LARGE_FILE_PERCENTAGE=2
DATA_TOTAL=1500
DATA_TYPE=MB
 
myfunction (){
        PERCENTAGE=$((${1}_FILE_PERCENTAGE))
        DTYPE=$TOTAL_DATA_TYPE
        echo ==== PERCENTAGE ==== $PERCENTAGE #This works correctly
 
        if [[ "$DTYPE" == "KB"  ]]; then
                echo test kb
        elif [[ "$DTYPE" == "MB"  ]]; then
             [B]   ${i}_TOTAL=123  <-------RIGHT HERE[/B]
        elif [[ "$DTYPE" == "GB"  ]]; then
                echo test gb
        elif [[ "$DTYPE" == "TB"  ]]; then
                echo test tb
        fi
}
 
for i in SMALL MEDIUM LARGE
do
    myfunction $i
done 
  

Please don't modify the code, other than the "RIGHT HERE" code. I need it this way, but I am only giving a partial story with the code.

Essentially, it will set a SMALL_TOTAL=12345, MEDIUM_TOTAL=blah, blah, blah. I am going to take the total and convert it into bytes based on the DATA_TYPE

Thanks in advance

[jdh239]

Solved it.... I had to add an 'export' or 'eval' before it