thanks, this did it for me.

On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 8:48:31 PM UTC-7, John Myles White wrote:
>
> getfield(foo, :bar)
>
> You can iterate over the fieldnames(foo) to print things. I would avoid a 
> potentially wasteful conversion to a dictionary since it doesn't buy you 
> anything in terms of expressive power.
>
> --John
>
> On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 8:38:04 PM UTC-7, Lewis Lehe wrote:
>>
>> Hi I was wondering if there is a way to do this? To access a fieldname 
>> with a variable?
>>
>> type Foo
>>  bar:Float64
>> end
>>
>> foo = Foo(5.0)
>>
>> test = :bar
>> foo[test]
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, I wondered if there is a way to convert an object into a dict? I 
>> want to "println" an object in a way that's readable in the output, like a 
>> Dict.
>>
>>
>>
>>

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