"Tudor" <twhiteley@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:dfqus2$6qm$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> hey everyone,
> I'm currently trying to simplify my life a little by using eval in
> conjunction with a for loop to lighten the number of things I have to
> write
> down a little.
> Here is what I'm doing and I guess I need help understanding why it
> doesn't
> work as well as a suggestion on how to fix it. :)
>
> Normally I could do something like this
>
> for (i = 0; i<1000; i++) {
> stickyNote_mc._x = stickyNoteInfo_lb.getItemAt(i).data.posX;
> }
>
> and everyone would be happy... the problem is I'm trying to do this.
>
>
> for (i = 0; i<1000; i++) {
> myArray[i] = eval("stickyNoteInfo_lb.getItemAt(0).data.posX" + i );
> }
>
> and this just doesn't work. Essentially I have a need for about 100
> different columns in my database all called posX1 --> posX100 and I don't
> want to have to set each one of them individually or I'll go crazy.
>
> I'm concerned about the right hand side of the = sign just to be clear.
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all help.
>
> Regards,
> Tudor
>
>