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I'm new to AngularJS and I'm still exploring its possibilities. Currently I'm stuck with this problem: How can I name a variable using another's variable value?

For example I have something like this in my controller:

    $scope.item_foo = 'Foo';
    $scope.item_bar = 'Bar';

I can access the values with this:

    {{item_foo}}
    {{item_bar}}

So far so good, but now I want to display them dynamically. I have an object with 'foo' and 'bar' and I loop it with ngRepeat. How can I do something like that:

    {{item_{{variable_with_value_foo_or_bar}}}} // should print Foo and Bar

Thank you for any of your help!

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Within your template, this refers to the current scope, so you can do:

{{ this[ 'item_' + variable_with_value_foo_or_bar ] }}

There are probably better ways to perform what you're trying to do, but hopefully this answers your question.

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Thank you so much! This is exactly the solution I was looking for. –  ohh2ahh Mar 21 at 19:49
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It seems like it would be better to use an object to store the data, rather than a bunch of things at the $scope level...:

$scope.item = {foo: 'Foo', bar: 'Bar'};
// ...
$scope.variable_with_value_foo_or_bar = 'foo';

Then access with:

{{item[variable_with_value_foo_or_bar]}}
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Thank you very much for your answer. Actually, my problem is not as easy as I wrote. It has a specific reason why I'm doing this. I'm sure it's not "best practice", but I'm still learning :) –  ohh2ahh Mar 21 at 19:48
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