# Defining an object with variable properties
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/defining-an-object-with-variable-properties/35596
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 15, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/defining-an-object-with-variable-properties/35596 "2003-11-15T21:25:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Voetsjoeba](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Voetsjoeba)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/defining-an-object-with-variable-properties/35596/1 "2003-11-15T21:25:23Z")
Hello everybody đ
Iâm facing a problem with defining objects. What I need to accomplish is this:
```auto
var cnms = this.cNames.split("|");
myDP = new Array({cnms[0]:"Chris", cnms[1]:"Priceless"}, {cnms[0]:"Nigel", cnms[1]:"Cheap"});
```
Obviously, this doesnât work, otherwise I wouldnât be typing this right now. How do I define an object with variable properties ? Iâve tried eval(), but it doesnât work either.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/defining-an-object-with-variable-properties/35596/2 "2003-11-15T21:30:29Z")
what you posted doesnât quite make sense đ
so you have an array called cnms⌠whatâs [font=couriernew]cnms[0]:âChrisâ[/font], why do you try to reassign a value to it and at the same time declaring as a property of the object⌠:h: confusing đ
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/defining-an-object-with-variable-properties/35596/3 "2003-11-16T09:28:21Z")
Iâm not trying to redefine the values of the array, Iâm trying to define an object of which I want the properties to be a value from that array. You create an object like this:
```auto
newobject = {name:"MyName",age:"Yourage"};
```
Using the object initializers { and }. But instead of name and age as properties of the object (newobject.name, newobject.age), I want to use a value from the cnms array. So I tried defining the object like this:
```auto
newobject = {cnms[0]:"MyName",cnms[1]:"Yourage"};
```
But that doesnât work. Neither does using eval(cnms[0]).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2003, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/defining-an-object-with-variable-properties/35596/4 "2003-11-16T10:08:30Z")
maybe,
[AS]
newobject = {this.cnms[0]:âMyNameâ,this.cnms[1]:âYourageâ};
[/AS]
If it doesnât work feel free to laugh,
Shawn
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2003, 10:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/defining-an-object-with-variable-properties/35596/5 "2003-11-16T10:12:47Z")
I canât do that because that code is inside an onLoad handler of a loadVars object.
```auto
lv.onLoad = function(){
var cnms = this.cNames.split("|");
myDP = new Array({cnms[0]:"Chris", cnms[1]:"Priceless"}, {cnms[0]:"Nigel", cnms[1]:"Cheap"});
}
```
If Iâd use this.cnms[0], then the cnms array would have to be a property of the loadVars object, which it isnât. I can however declare the array as property of the loadVars object ⌠Let me try I out, though I doubt itâll make a difference.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2003, 10:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/defining-an-object-with-variable-properties/35596/6 "2003-11-16T10:14:30Z")
Nope, no go âŚ
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2003, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/defining-an-object-with-variable-properties/35596/7 "2003-11-16T10:18:23Z")
Well hey the loadvars thing wasnât there before, now I see the problem, but, I donât know how to fix it. Told you it would be a good laugh.
Good Luck,
Shawn
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2003, 10:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/defining-an-object-with-variable-properties/35596/8 "2003-11-16T10:20:38Z")
```auto
var cnmsR = this.cNames.split("|");
myDP = new Array(
{cnms:newArray(cnmsR[0], cnmsR[1])} ,
{cnms:newArray(cnmsR[2], cnmsR[3])}
}
```
I doubt it works, but give it a try anyways đ
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/defining-an-object-with-variable-properties/35596/9 "2003-11-16T14:11:55Z")
Huh ? What are you doing there ? đ