pass variable to custom function not working MX

[amphibianZ]

I have an app that I built in Flash 5 that I want to output in Flash MX (not
2004, though) but part of my code, which works fine as Flash 5 swf, breaks in
Flash 6 swf. I am loading text from an external text file, and then passing the
text contents of each variable to a function (to strip line breaks). Following
is the code... does anyone know how to rewrite this so that it will work in
Flash 6? The contents of the variable are not getting passed, and eval does not
work on left side of expression...

Thanks in advance for help.

-S

// content, correct, Q1, Q2, Q3, etc are all variable loaded from external
text file. I am trying to pass contents of variables, which is why I need to
eval them. This worked in Flash 5, but not in Flash MX if I publish as Flash
Player 6 file.

temp = stripLineBreak("content");
temp = stripLineBreak("correct");
for (i=1; i<=10; i++){
z="Q"+i
temp = stripLineBreak(z);
}

function stripLineBreak(x) {
tempArray = new Array();
tempArray = eval(x).split("\r");
eval(x) = tempArray.join("");
tempArray.splice(0,tempArray.length);
tempArray = eval(x).split("\n");
eval(x) = tempArray.join("");
tempArray.splice(0,tempArray.length);
}

[Peter Blumenthal]

I can't test this because I don't have your data or .FLA, but this could do
it:

temp = stripLineBreak(this.content);
temp = stripLineBreak(this.correct);
for (i=1; i<=10; i++) {
z = this["Q"+i];
temp = stripLineBreak(z);
}
function stripLineBreak(x) {
tempArray = new Array();
tempArray = x.split("\r");
x = tempArray.join("");
tempArray.splice(0, tempArray.length);
tempArray = x.split("\n");
x = tempArray.join("");
tempArray.splice(0, tempArray.length);
}




hth
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