Execute string as a function

You can't do this like you would in javascript, e.g. with javascript's eval function, but the limited actionscript eval function could be put to some use here. You would need to split the string out into scope, method and arguments, in a similar way to following line in kglad's example above.

this[str]("test string");

The folllowing code assumes that the split to separate the arguments out into an array has been made. (trace only has one argument, so its not a great example - there's a couple of others included). Its only an more generalised extension of the approach kglad used... and I found that many of the functions listed as being in global scope didn't seem to work. It's definitely just a starting point and not a full solution.