Sorry for the noobQ but I'm trying to translate a bit of syntax into
actionscript.

In ASP, I can use myval = request("carrot")
In AS2, I need to do something similar with loadvars froma text file.
We read in the data and pull out this.carrot and this.cucumber but what
I need to do is pull out this("carrot") because the key is built
dynamicly.

Does anyone know the syntax for accessing a property by a variable
name?

Actually, I just figured it out! eval().

I had tried:
x="carrot"
myval=this.eval(x)

which should have been:
myval=eval("this." + x)