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hey all. according to my research in javascript you can call a function by function name in a string variable.  but netsuite doesn't like this.  is it possible?

so I need to call functionA(id, 'some_function_name').  then functionA does somthing inside but requiring to make a call to 'some_function_name'.  some_function_name is not known till runtime.

What context or script type are you trying this out in? What do you mean "doesn't like this"? How does it fail?

suitelet form.  ReferenceError: "window" is not defined.

<https://www.tutorialspoint.com/how-to-call-a-function-from-its-name-stored-in-a-string-using-javascript>

your suitelet is executing on the server side, where the `window` object does not exist

you probably don't _need_ to use a string to call a particular function in the way you have in mind. you could put the string into a switch statement which calls the corresponding function, not using the string to actually call the function.

well i guess need to recode it differently.

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a more idiomatic way to handle this is to pass the function (not the function _name_) to your functionA() since functions are first class citizens in Javascript.

e.g. `funA(exampleFunction)` rather than `funA("exampleFunction")`