Can you name an Actionscript variable the value of another?

Question

eg. var myName="john", and I want a variable called john. In PHP I'd do $$firstVarName. Thanks!

Answer 1

In actionscript you do it with square brackets.

for example:

var myNewVariable:String = "variableName";
this[myNewVariable] = "hello";

trace(this[myNewVariable]);
trace(this.variableName);

so in your case it would be:

var myName:String = "john";
this[myName] = "top bloke";

trace(this.john);

(should return "top bloke")

Make sense?

Answer 2

Here it goes:

var myName = "vinayak";
set(myName, "12345");

// now you can work with the dynamic variable
trace(vinayak);

// output would be : 12345