Ali Drongo wrote:
> Hello, I'm being passed a string that has a reference to an object in
> dot-syntax like this: "myOb.property.property2.property3"
>
> The object targeted may be a varying number of levels inside of the
> top-level object.
>
> I have tried to write this by turning the string into an array and
> then creating the object but I'm not sure how:
>
> public static function arToObj(a:Array):Object
> {
> var retObj:Object;
> for ( var i:Number=0; i<a.length; i++ ) {
> if (i==a.length-1){
> //dont know what to do here !!
> }
> };
> return retObj;
> }
This is untested e-mail ActionScript, but you could do something like this:
public static function arToObj(a:String):Object
{
var strArray:Array;
var clsRef:Class;
strArray = a.split(".");
clsRef = getDefinitionByName(strArray[0]) as Class;
return new clsRef();
}
I'm sure there are bugs in there, but that's the basic approach I'd take.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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