get string representation of a variable name in as3

Question

any way of doing this is as3?

for example, if I have a var dog:String, how can I get \"dog\" out of that variable?

Looking into reflection to d

Answer 1

• First of all if it's an instance of a custom class, you can override the toString() method.

• If it's a property of the class, you can use this method — https://stackoverflow.com/posts/3781635/revisions

• If it's a local variable, there is no way to get that name.