# Dynamic Text, Data Type, Variable Problem
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-data-type-variable-problem/38424
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 22, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-data-type-variable-problem/38424 "2003-12-22T19:28:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@jugglerpm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jugglerpm)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-data-type-variable-problem/38424/1 "2003-12-22T19:28:15Z")
I am trying to load one of 80 text fields into a dynamic text box. I have an Array that is filled with all 80 field labels in random order. My concept is that I should be able to pop the last field out of the array, set it equal to a variable, and use that variable in the statement defining the text of the text box. But it doesn’t work. It returns undefined.
Example:
[AS]nextQuestion = myList2.pop();
myTextField\_txt.text = externalData.nextQuestion;[/AS]
The second line of the statement works if I hard code the text field name.
Example:
[AS]myTextField\_txt.text=externalData.question37;[/AS]
But it does not work if I use a variable set to question37.
I think this may have to do with the data type of the variable. It is a string. Any ideas or suggestions?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-data-type-variable-problem/38424/2 "2003-12-22T20:22:27Z")
```auto
nextQuestion = myList2.pop();
myTextField_txt.text = externalData[nextQuestion];
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-text-data-type-variable-problem/38424/3 "2003-12-22T20:41:52Z")
norie,
Thank you very much! Works perfectly.
-jugglerpm