For loop not evaluating?!?

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hello all,
my code is pretty straight forward. i can’t get the ‘if…then’ statement to fire correctly. var t DOES equal “_level0.item” + sel at some point, as seen in my second code snippet, but the for loop doesn’t ever see it and only the false code is executed.

 [LEFT]_global.heck = function(sel) //sel will be a number sent from another function


{ 
[LEFT]for(var i=0; i<numOfItems; i++)
{
var t:MovieClip = home["item"+i];[/LEFT]
 
[LEFT]if(t != "_level0.item" + sel)
{
           **do something**;
}
else
{
**do something else**;
}[/LEFT]
 
[LEFT]trace(t);
trace("_level0.item" + sel);
} // end[/LEFT]

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[LEFT]

‘home’ is a var equal to ‘.this’ which equates to ‘_level0’…hence my ‘if…then’ statement.

here is what happens in the looping. you can see that there is a match! the first line is the t var and directly beneath is ‘_level0.item’ + sel

 [LEFT]_level0.item0


_level0.item4
 
[LEFT]_level0.item1
_level0.item4[/LEFT]
 
[LEFT]_level0.item2
_level0.item4[/LEFT]
 
[LEFT]_level0.item3
_level0.item4[/LEFT]
 
[LEFT]_level0.item4 <-- here is the 't' var
_level0.item4 <-- here is the 'sel' var - they match!!![/LEFT]
 
[LEFT]_level0.item5
_level0.item4[/LEFT]
 
[LEFT]_level0.item6
_level0.item4[/LEFT]
 
[LEFT]_level0.item7
_level0.item4[/LEFT]
 
[LEFT]_level0.item8
_level0.item4[/LEFT]
 
[LEFT]_level0.item9
_level0.item4[/LEFT]

[/LEFT]

[LEFT]

i can even hardcode a value: if(t == _level0.item6) and it’ll work just fine but try using a variable and it doesn’t do a thing!

thanks!

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