Alright, Sean McArthur solved the problem, here: 
http://mootools.net/shell/XE5TR/

On 24 Dec 2009, at 18:26, Roman Land wrote:

> I think that is what I said, you need to first split the string based on '.' 
> and then use these to access the property you want.. a[b][c] etc..
> 
> And there is no need for eval...
> 
> Was this a job interview question you got?
> 
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Oskar Krawczyk <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> I was expecting this would need hacking.
> 
> Nor regex or split will help- I really don't want to use eval()... To get the 
> correct path: window[a][b].version 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 24 Dec 2009, at 17:23, Roman Land <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I think this is not according to JS specification, example:
>> 
>> var a = {'test.test' : "blah"};
>> console.log(a['test.test']); // this works and splits "blah"
>> 
>> So there is no 100% true way to build path from the script. but if you want 
>> there are two ways I can think of:
>> 1. using regex
>> 2. using 'some.path'.split('.') will give you two elements to play with. 
>> (but you have to be more elaborate with longer paths)
>> 
>> In short, I think you are doing something wrong.. this is hacking basic 
>> stuff that IMO you shouldnt..
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Oskar Krawczyk <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Yeah yeah, not Moo but Vanilla. I trust you guys more than any other JS 
>> group so I'll just go ahead ask here:
>> 
>> http://www.mootools.net/shell/q5ngz/
>> 
>> There's a dynamic number of objects:
>> 
>> ScriptInfo = {
>>     version: '1.2'
>> };
>> 
>> AnotherScriptInfo = {};
>> AnotherScriptInfo.Extension = {
>>     version: '1.2'
>> };
>> 
>> And a config:
>> 
>> var classes = ['ScriptInfo', 'AnotherScriptInfo.Extension'];
>> 
>> What I need is to get into: window.NNN.version - where NNN can be one 
>> property or 10.
>> 
>> Of course doing window['AnotherScriptInfo.Extension'].version ain't gonna 
>> fly.
>> 
>> How do I deal with this? It's probably simpler than any solution that comes 
>> to mind at this moment.
>> 
>> ___
>> 
>> Oskar Krawczyk
>> http://nouincolor.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> ---
>> "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
>> 
>> - Albert Einstein
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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