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| Subject: | Re: FLASH: Return a string of a variable name???? |
| From: | jmerrill |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:01:53 GMT |
Correct me if I'm wrong, but according to the actionscript manual and my
tests, that does that exact opposite of what I want to do. It returns the
VALUE of the variable, not the NAME. Am I missing something?
Jason Merrill
Multimedia/Courseware Developer @ ELF, Issaquah, WA
425.369.5214
SerengetiUS.com - "Where Law Does Business"
Seattle Macromedia Authorware User's Group
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var1="cow";
var2="var1";
eval(var2);
This will return "cow"
var2;
this will return "var1"
----- Original Message -----
From: <jmerrill
elftech [dot] com>To: <flasher
chinwag [dot] com>Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 3:08 PM
Subject: FLASH: Return a string of a variable name????
>
> How do I return the string of a variable name?
>
> For example, if I do this:
>
> var1 = "apple"
> var2 = var1
>
> var1 returns "apple" and of course var2 now returns "apple" also. Fine.
>
> But how do I get the name of the "var1" variable as a string, so that
> returning var2 gives me the string "var1" instead of "apple"??? I want
to
> dynamically reference variables in this way. I'm using Flash5. Thanks
> again.
>
> Jason Merrill
> Multimedia/Courseware Developer @ ELF, Issaquah, WA
> 425.369.5214
> SerengetiUS.com - "Where Law Does Business"
>
> Seattle Macromedia Authorware User's Group
>
>
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