# \[AS1\] variable indirection possible?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as1-variable-indirection-possible/225211>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 9, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as1-variable-indirection-possible/225211 "2007-05-09T18:30:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![raven\_gm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/54ee81/32.png) [@raven\_gm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/raven_gm)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as1-variable-indirection-possible/225211/1 "2007-05-09T18:30:47Z")

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so I’m working on a project, and I’m going to have a bunch of different slider bars, and I want to use one movie clip for them all. Their function will be to change various \_root.varables, and I wanted to send each instance a separate string (this.name = “\_root.blah”), so that it could read the value of \_root.blah AND assign new values to it.

However, I have yet to find a command that will let me do this… (if my calculator can do this, I assume flash can too, I just don’t know how.)