# Can't exchange values of variables. Trace returns "undefined"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [November 16, 2004, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-exchange-values-of-variables-trace-returns-undefined/128800 "2004-11-16T10:18:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Soniq7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Soniq7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Soniq7)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2004, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cant-exchange-values-of-variables-trace-returns-undefined/128800/1 "2004-11-16T10:18:34Z")
Hai, I’m trying to pass the value of a variable in to another but tracing that value returns “undefined” This is what i do: 1 Im loading the values from an external .txt file. in the .txt file it says… &customer1=blahblah 2 A textfield in Flash with the var: value “customer1” shows the externally loaded value…blahblah. So this is good:D 3 When I try to pass the value “blahblah” to another variable it returns “undefined” ?? test = customer1; Also tried: test = eval(customer1); I’m definitly doing something wrong here. can’t be that hard?!? Can somebody help me? Thanks, Marc