Loop animation mesh help

[Metalfist]

Ok I start with saying I'm a noob coder. I'm trying to let a mesh (Introdude) play an animation over and over again (and standard UTstuff won't do the job). I saw this code from CTF-Bedrooms, but I could only hardcode 1 animation with it. I wanted to make it so that I can choose which animation I want and here is where my noobness in coding starts.
I wanted to create a string, where you can type the animation you want in the editor.
It then gets send in the spot where the loopanimation is, so you have a variable that can change.
This is the code:

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class Humper1 expands IntroDude;

var() string AnimationChoice; //type which animation you want

function PostBeginPlay()
{
         Super.PostBeginPlay();
	LoopAnim( 'AnimationChoice',0.7,0.1); //put that animation here and loop it
}

But it doesn't work this way. I tried some things, but it won't compile/work properly. So what am I missing?
I want to understand how this all works.

[Feralidragon]

In UScript you have 2 kinds of character variables:
- name: a "string" but which may only contain alphanumeric characters and underscores (it does not allow spaces or any other character), example: "Foo_23"
- string: the regular string type which accepts any character, example: "Foo is a generic thang..."

In the case of animations, they do not use "string", they use "name", thus the compilation error you're getting is most likely a "type mismatch" error.
Therefore you just need to change your variable type from "string" to "name".

As for the usage, it's:
LoopAnim(AnimationChoice, ...
Not:
LoopAnim('AnimationChoice', ...

Remove the single quotes from the variable in LoopAnim.

[Metalfist]

Thx ferali! It works now