And I stand corrected, you cannot use eval to evaluate an expression, or 
use it on the left side of an equation as of Flash 5:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_16187&sliceId=2
http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/faq/#varreference

BUT... looking through my bookmark archives, there is the D.eval class 
in AS3, which does allow you to use full evel functionality in AS3:
http://www.riaone.com/products/deval/docs/user-guide/ug.html

...Which Andrew Trice used to good effect in his "Drawing API Explorer":
http://www.insideria.com/2008/03/try-out-the-drawing-api-withou.html

:)
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Joseph Balderson, Developer | http://joeflash.ca | 705-466-6345


Josh McDonald wrote:
> You could evaluate any single expression though, right? Like eval("4 / 
> 2") == 2. That worked? Maybe it's been longer than I thought :)
> 
> -Josh
> 
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Tracy Spratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> 
>     You could not run code with eval(), for sure in AS2.  I can't say
>     for sure in AS1, as I never used that.
> 
>     Tracy
> 
>      
> 
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> 
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> 
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