How to call a variable using a String for the variable name?

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So I have a set of lines:

 static var restartDrugged_1 = "Was all this just a flashback...";
 static var restartDrugged_2 = "It's the drugs";
 static var restartDrugged_3 = "Again";

and I have a variable that keeps changing dynamically

 var restartDruggedTotal : int;

My idea would be to change the text that is displayed depending on the integer number so I wrote something like this:

 var restartDruggedLine : String = "restartDrugged_" + restartDruggedTotal.ToString();

This means that the "restartDruggedLine" will have the name of the variable I want to call (e.g. restartDrugged_2 if restartDruggedTotal = 2).

But now how can I actually call the "restartDrugged_2"? I have a function that displays text on screen but if I run it with:

 ShowText(restartDruggedLine);

I'll just get "restartDrugged_2".

Hope the question makes sense!

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Answer by castor · Jun 07, 2013 at 05:24 AM

And just found the answer...by using Hashtables! Here is my current solution, if there is a better one please let me know.

 var restartTotalLine = new Hashtable();
     restartTotalLine[1] = "Text a";
     restartTotalLine[2] = "Text b";
     restartTotalLine[3] = "Text c";

and now i can do:

 var restartTotalLine : String = restartTotalLine[restartTotal];

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