Alternative for eval()

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I have AS2 situation -> MC1 duplicates a MC2 in a keyframe three times. MC1’s parent has scale variables defined. MC1 sets _yscale for the three new clips in AS2 with

for (j=1; j<=3; j++) {
setProperty(“dup”+j, _yscale, eval("_parent.Yscale"+j));
}

I managed to convert most to AS3 except for the eval() part… which doesn’t exist in AS3… The closest I could guess to what i might be is something like;

dup[j].scaleY = MovieClip(parent).getDefinitionByName(“Yscale”+j);

but the substitute eval() part doesn’t work. FYI, I tried some random()*10 values just to see result and that works fine. I mainly need to solve the part to work;

eval("_parent.Yscale"+j)

Anybody a fix or alternative solution?