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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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];