[jschell]

I am having problems loading some external variables from a text file. Here is my text file:

NumAreas=5&area_list1=Blue+Mountains&area_list2=Ha waii&area_list3=Hunter+Valley&area_list4=Lady+Elli ot+Island&area_list5=Sydney

Here is my ActionScript:

Actionscript:

loadVariablesNum("AreaLabels", 0);
Areas = new Array();
for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
	Areas[i] = _level0["area_list" + i];
}

I have also tried:

Areas[i] = _root["area_list" + i];
and
Areas[i] = this["area_list" + i];
and
Areas[i] = eval("area_list" + i);


All of the values in the Areas[] array come out as undefined. Also, how would I convert NumAreas to an integer so that I can use it for the upper bound of my for loop? I have tried Number(NumAreas) and parseInt(NumAreas), but neither of those work.

If anyone could help, that would be great. Thanks.

I am currently in my third year of a Computer Science degree at the University of Colorado. I am quite fluent in C++ and also know some Perl and Java. It seems to me that Flash's ActionScripting language is far less intuitive than any of the other languages that I have studied. Is this just me, or do others feel this way?

Justin