"string" to variable

Hello all!

I'm trying to use a string to determine a specific variable.

For example.

Code:

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onClipEvent (load) {
    var1 = "var2";
    var2 = new Object();
    var2.a = "no";


    _root[var1].a = "yes";
}

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Is this possible? I really do think it is. But I'm really not sure how to go about doing it. The main reason. I have to save/load hundreds of objects/variables. and in order to determine which ones to load, i wanted to make a variable to tell it which ones to load.

Basically, so I don't have to do this...

Code:

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onClipEvent(load) {
    if(var1 == "var2") {
          _root.var2.a = "yes";
    }
    if(var1 == "var3") {
          _root.var3.a = "yes";
    }
    if(var1 == "var4") {
          _root.var4.a = "yes";
    }
}

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So yea, any help is appreciated,
Thanks!
~Bill

not sure if i fully understand the question, but from what i do.. do u mean something along these lines?

Code:

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for(var i:Number=0 ; i< 200; i++){
       
        if(var1 == "var"+String(i)){
                _root["var"+String(i)].a = "yes";
               
                }
        }

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hmmm, not exactly. All I really need to know is how this...

_root[var1].a = "yes";

would compute to this....

_root.var2.a = "yes";


I havent been able to do it that way. unless its something else thats makeing it not work... So, does that seem like it should work?

At first I thought it didnt work because what flash is seeing is this...

_root."var2".a = "yes";

Which wouldnt make sense in actionscript. but yea. any thoughts?

~Bill

code:

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var1 = "var2";

var2 = new Object();

var2.a = "no";

_root[var1].a = "yes";

trace(var2.a);

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Works as expected for me...

K.