String vs object -?

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To ask this as simply as possible I will water down what I am trying to do.


pwn_ab.onPress = pwn_bb.onPress=function () {
	var piece = new Object(this._name);
	if(piece == "pwn_ab"){
		this.startDrag(false, 19, 57.4, 19, 207.4);
	}

I have two buttons on the stage, pwn_ab and pwn_bb - say I press button pwn_ab, the code works just fine. The problem is, see how I have ("") around pwn_ab in the ifStatement, this means my variable “piece”, is a string - how can I make the variable “piece” not a string so the code below will work? Notice I removed the (“”) from pwn_ab in the ifStatement.


pwn_ab.onPress = pwn_bb.onPress=function () {
	var piece = new Object(this._name);
	if(piece == pwn_ab){
		this.startDrag(false, 19, 57.4, 19, 207.4);
	}