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Hi my problem is i have to be able to reference certain fields inside my Customer object.]

I am studying AS3 at the moment and being taught custom classes, but we are taught to use the toString method of returning a value i guess you could call it, what i need is to be able to call one field to identify the object i.e. name field from the object in the array, here's my code

package valueObjects
{
public class Person
{
    //instance variables
    protected var name:String;
    protected var address:String;
    protected var phoneNo:String;   

    public function Person(n:String,a:String,p:String)
    {
        name=n;
        address=a;
        phoneNo=p;
    }

    public function toString():String
    {
        //returns string 
        return name+":"+address+":"+phoneNo;
    }
}

}

some reason it will not put that whole block of code together like THIS IS

So now how do i define it not toString but in object form ??

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  • If you're trying to access the `name`, `address` and `phoneNo` vars from a different class, then you need to define them as `public`, not `protected` – BadFeelingAboutThis Jun 10 '13 at 02:57

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I think what you are trying to do is access the name, address and phoneNo vars from a different class?

If so, you have to declare them as public vars instead of private vars. 

public var name:String; //now this can be accessed from other classes:  thisClassInstance.name

If you want to have them read-only from other classes, you have to use a getter method:

protected var name_:String;  //local var name for full access;
public function get name():String {
    return name_; //this can be access by doing  thisClassInstance.name
}
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  • @Steve Andrews this explains the problem you are having in [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/q/16986018/398606). Your `Customer` class only has a `toString()` method, and no way of accessing the individual properties of `name`, `address`, and `phoneNo`. If you add getter methods (as shown here) for each of these properties, then you should be able to do `` as well as access these properties individually (ie: `customer.phone`) – Sunil D. Jun 10 '13 at 03:19
  • @LondonDrug thank you for you help, i've got it displaying the name field only – Steve Andrews Jun 10 '13 at 04:14
  • & @Sunil thank you for you help too in this and the other post of mine, i've got it displaying the name field only – Steve Andrews Jun 10 '13 at 04:14