Strange If statement responce

programming flash
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I’ve worked out where the problem is, but I don’t know why flash is picking it up as a problem…

I’m looping through an array and checking the elements to see if an element contains this text.

the array is as following
array_container[0] = ‘_A_1’;
array_container[1] = ‘_a_2’;


        for(var i = 0;i<_root.array_container.length; i++)
        {
            lookfor = '_A_1';
            current = _root.array_container*;
            trace('----'+current+'----'+lookfor+'----');
            if(lookfor==current)
            {
                trace('FOUND '+_root.array_container*);

            }
            trace(_root.array_container*);
        }

i’ve narrowed down the problem to being the variable ‘current’. If I replace the dynamic part to the string ‘_A_1’ it works. That is why I entered the trace just above to see what its is checking against. I can see that they are both the same, but flash thinks otherwise.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance for any reply :slight_smile: