[F8] Dynamic text field naming and assignments?

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Hi,

Probably a lack of knowledge on my part (no, definitely…), but how do I go about loading dynamic text fields from an array, using dynamic variable naming?

for(j=0; j<count; j++){
this[“contacts_mc.nameText”+j+".text"] = inputArray[j][0];
}

“nameText0”, “nameText1”, etc are the instance names of dynamic text fields in the contacts_mc movie clip, which is on the root level of my timeline.

I get no return at all when tracing the target dynamic text field as trace(contacts_mc.nameText1.text), for example. Dynamic naming examples I’ve come across don’t seem to work here - perhaps a difference in how dynamic text fields are assigned?

Thank you for any advice!