There has to be a better way... to call Constants in AS3

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Hello and thanks in advance if anyone can come up with a better way to handle this in AS3.

Basically I want to call a const by a int.

here is the code i have so far…

public static const _100:String = “name=lion legstype=legs";
public static const _101:String = "name=lion tailtype=tail”;
public static const _200:String = “name=tiger legs*type=legs”;

///more lines going down with the number on the far left being the main differentiating factor

public static function getByName(name:int):String {
switch(name) {
case 100 :
return _100;
break;

     case 101 :
          return _101;
      break;

     case 200:
          return _200;
     break;

…///i dont want to write a case for every const X[

      default      : return _0;
 }

}

is there a better way out there to call the constants by an outside int without having a switch function handle the logic? Thanks again :] :samus_v2: