Creating variable dynamically

[mwalsh]

Hello,

I want to produce a variable dynamically and store a value in it.

I'm using:

eval("_root."+main+"_sub1") = sub1 - 1;

But it is producing an error:

Left side of assignment operator must be variable or property.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[garbage]

Try:

_root[main + "_sub1"] = sub1 - 1;

[mwalsh]

You complete genius!
It worked first time.
Thank you very much.
I assume all that bracket "[" stuff is new in MX as I'm not familiar with it.

[catbert303]

No, the _root[] stuff was around in flash 5. However in flash 5 you could also use eval as a left hand side but in MX Macromedia have removed this because it wasn't part of the ECMA standard actionscript is based on.