Possible to use this[String] after "."?

[witherton]

In my code, the following works as it should:

trace (sampleVar.samplevar2.currentLabel)

The current label of an instance called "sampleVar2" inside of an instance called "sampleVar" is traced.

The following works, too.

trace (this["sampleVar"].samplevar2.currentLabel)

However, what I would like to do is use "this" and a string after the first dot like this:

trace (sampleVar.this[samplevar2].currentLabel) or
trace (this["sampleVar.samplevar2"].currentLabel)

however, I get an error message saying "A term is undefined and has no properties" when I do this.Is it possible to do something like this? How should I change my code?

[Ned Murphy · Accepted solution]

Why do you want to do that?

In case you think "this" is required, you only need to have a reference object in front of the brackets... "this" is just a convenient substitute for when you don't have a named object.  But in your case you do...

sampleVar[samplevar2]  is all you need.