# Calling Function from String

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-function-from-string/256988>\
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**Created:** [April 9, 2008, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-function-from-string/256988 "2008-04-09T10:42:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-function-from-string/256988/1 "2008-04-09T10:42:39Z")

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hello,  
was trying to get a prototype run from a foreach loop depending on instance name… but i stripped the code =).  
Why wont this work?  
[AS]  
myFunc = “hello”  
hello = function (){  
trace(“hello World”)  
}  
eval(myFunc)  
[/AS]