Assign movieclip to variable from string name...?

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So i am trying to make a solitaire game, and in my library i have a full deck of cards, each card as a separate movieclip. For example: *Spade_A, Spade_2, Spade_3, Spade_4.

So in my as3 code i have a 2d array, and in a loop (or set of loops) i assign each card’s importable name to the variable. EG: cardArray[0][0] = “Spade_A”, cardArray[0][1] = “Spade_2”, cardArray[0][2] = “Spade_3”. and etc.

*So the problem i am having iswhen i want to assign that, to a variable like so:

*var cardName = new cardArray[0][2].name;
this.addChild(cardName);

what would be the most efficient way to do this?

thanks.
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