Extracting Textfield Text from Display List

I am attempting to extract the text in a textfield that is
displayed with the container (see below) display list. The code
snippet I am using is listed below.
for (i = 0; i < container.numChildren; i++) {
var temp:TextField = new TextField();
// temp = container.getChildAt(i);
trace(container.getChildAt(i));
trace(temp.text);
When I execute this, the trace(container.getChildAt(i)) line
displays <object TextField>. But, when I activate the comment
line temp = container.getChildAt(i); I get an error about coerceing
a static variable. Can anyone give me a clue how I can trace the
text in the textfield container.getChildAt(i)?

I found some example code in the
help->clases->staticText that I modified as below to solve
the problem.
for (i = 0; i < container.numChildren; i++) {
var displayitem:DisplayObject = container.getChildAt(i);
if (displayitem is TextField) {
trace("a static text field is item " + i + " on the display
list");
var myFieldLabel:TextField = TextField(displayitem);
trace("and contains the text: " + myFieldLabel.text);
}

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