How to get Angular service by name programmatically

Question

I have a string that contains the name of a service I need to inject into in one of my controllers programmatically.

function Ctrl() {
    var serviceName = '$myService';
    var service = ???
}

I am assuming it should be pretty easy to do something similar to:

function Ctrl($injector) {
    var serviceName = '$myService';
    var service = $injector.inject(serviceName);
}

I know I don't have the syntax correct but can someone give me the correct syntax?

Foo L · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-08 22:34:17Z

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You can get a service like this:

var myService = $injector.get('MyServiceName');

answered Oct 8, 2013 at 22:34

Foo L

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