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

Sounds like you don't want to "get" the string representation of a variable name, but rather set the variable based on a string.

To set a variable that you have its name as a string you can do this:

this['dog'] = 'value of the dog var';