I need to strip a string from another and get the remnants. The string I need to strip is a Twitter username, so it can be variable length, but always starts with an '@' and can only contain alphanumeric characters or underscores.
For example, the original string might be "@username: tweeting about stuff" and I need to get out of that ": tweeting about stuff".
In a dynamic text field, I need to be able to search for the string and all of the characters after that up until it reaches a <space> then return that whole string into a variable I can use.
View 5 RepliesI am making a drag and drop type of quiz. The text is loaded from an XML file. I am looking for a way to "detect" a blank in the text which represents the point in the sentence where a word needs to be filled in. And then that point needs to be represented by a movieclip or sprite or something that will hold text from the word that is dropped onto it (it will need to be draggable in case the user changes thier mind).
View 1 RepliesDoes anyone know the regular expression to test if a single string character has both upper and lower case character?
eg. All A-Z and a-z.
I need a string splitted into groups of characters in ActionScript like this:
var txt:String = "Hello World";
var arr:Array = txt.split(3);
// Now arr should contain a value like: ["Hel", "lo ", "Wor", "ld"]
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In Actionscript and Adobe Flex, I'm using a pattern and regexp (with the global flag) with the string.match method and it works how I'd like except when the match returns multiple occurrences of the same word in the text. In that case, all the matches for that word point only to the index for the first occurrence of that word. For example, if the text is "cat dog cat cat cow" and the pattern is a search for cat*, the match method returns an array of three occurrences of "cat", however, they all point to only the index of the first occurrence of cat when i use indexOf on a loop through the array. I'm assuming this is just how the string.match method is. I want to find the specific indices of every occurrence of a match, even if it is of a word that was already previously matched.
how the string.match method is and if so
I am trying to locate the letter at a certain number of characters after a word.For instance, in this sentence:"Hello, I really like dogs"I want to find the character of position 7 after the word "really", which in the above sentence would be the letter "d"
View 2 RepliesI'm working with IPA Character embedding in Flash CS4. I can get almost all the characters to display properly, but "U+2C71" is giving me a problem.This works:
ActionScript Code:
txt.text = "u0294";
This displays "u2C71":
ActionScript Code:
txt.text = "u2C71";
It's like it's not even trying to find the Unicode character. Adobe says that everything up to uFFFF is supported, so I don't have any idea why it would be doing that
I can't use charCode, or keyCode in KeyboardEvent to find out the character pressed, because even if I change the keyboard layout, charCode and keyCode are not change (if press the same key).So, how to find the presssed character, following to the current keyboard layout?
The charCode property is the numeric value of that key in the current character set (the default character set is UTF-8, which supports ASCII).is not correct.
How do I get the numbers at the back of the strings.[code]...
View 3 Repliesis there any way of searching a string from right to left and trying to find the first occurrence of like a letter or a fullstop or something like that? also is there any way of finding the index of were its located and then deleting all characters from left to right starting at what ever index value was returned?
View 2 RepliesWhat I am after, is taking a string, then taking each character in that string and making it a variable, then displaying each character by itself. My problem is figuring that out. I thought I would try using a for loop and creating each character variable like that, but it doesn't work. I doesn't display anything. Here is my code so far, it seems like the closest thing I've gotten to:
for (var i:Number=1; i<=myString.length; i++) var letNum:String = myString.charAt(i); var let:String = letNum;
}
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What is the opposite of String.charAt()??If I Have a string:var Str:String="Hello World";How do I change the 5th character, for example, from a ' ' to an '_'?I can GET the 5th character like this:var C:String=Str.charAt(5);But how do I SET the 5th character?
View 4 RepliesI've been trying to wrap my head around this for some time now, but haven't been able to come up with an elegant solution. The problem: I have a string with different characters ("ABDDEEDDC") and I need to know which character occurs the most.
View 3 RepliesIs there an actionscript function I can use to pad a string to a certain length with a certain character?
Example: I have a number lets say 274 and I want to make sure that number is at least 6 characters long...with any open space receiving the character 'W'. So I'd call the pad function and my final number would look like this: WWW274
I would like to know if there is a way to detect from star variable second a and b in the following code? I want to compose code to omit first a and b and detect only second a and b. At the moment it detects both - first and second. And once the second a and b is detected I want it to be replaced by g and h so the star variable will have following string: "a b c d e f g h". Here is the code:
Code:
// there are 2 "a" and "b" letters in the string
var star:String = "a b c d e f a b";[code]............
I would like to delete the movieClip that created this variable "tall" in this code I attach if it were to be a certain suit, but I keep getting undefined error messages...I think it's because it is'nt a string variable, but I am not sure since it has been retreived from the server like in the line below:
maTall.push(String(variables.tall1)); I thought that String there specifies making it a string...
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I am attempting to write a utility class that, when fed a camel-case class name, will return it as a String with spaces inserted before uppercase characters. Basically, if I pass SomeClassName into it, it will return "Some Class Name".At the moment, the way I envisage it working is to loop through the String, comparing each char with an array of uppercase characters and, if it finds an uppercase character, I'd like it to insert a space before it.Have experimented with a variety of String methods but can't seem to get anything to work
View 6 RepliesRecently made the transition from flash/as2 to flex/as3 have to say I'm loving it! Thought i'd experiment a bit and test the water making a simple live chat application already run into my first snag.
Code:
private function keyPressed(e:KeyboardEvent):void
{
switch(e.keyCode)
{
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This is the main offender. I'm just wondering how I would find the last character and ignore everything else after that? Kind of similar to the php explode.
There seems to be a lack of these kinds of topics on Google, so here I am! Anywho, I need to insert a character at specific areas of a string, but when I use to following code:
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This strikes me as odd. Shouldn't it be "1,1,2%N2,3,3" instead? Obviously, I've done something wrong along the way, but I'm not sure what I've done wrong or how to fix it.
var str:String="M01L01T01S01"How can i split based on alphabatics I need to to modify the above string like "M01_L01_T01_S01"
View 4 RepliesI'm looking for the best way to search an 8 char string in AS3 to see if it contains a word or words. I've already got a dictionary of words loaded into Flash, with.[code]...
View 3 RepliesI am learning actionscript, and right now I am trying to trace the first character of a string I've declared.
Code:
var myString:String = "Informationsvidenskab";
trace(myString.charAt(i:myString=1):String;
My flashbuilder debug says:
Multiple markers at this line:
-String
-1084: Syntax error: expecting rightparen before colon.
-1084: Syntax error: expecting rightparen before colon.
-1 changed line
in the flash i use at Zero Width Non Joiner caracter but this caracter UNKNOWN for flash.var str:String='‌';//only one Zero Width Non Joiner trace (str.length);////0no problem in this code
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I have a string of 0:'000000' named stringtest I need to replace the 0 at the position x with 1. My code in flixel(a free library to create games)
Code: Select allif (FlxG.keys.justPressed("X"))
{
stringtest=stringtest.replace(stringtest.substring(1,2), '1');
}
it doesn;t replace the second 0 with 1., but it replaces the first one. However if the initial sting is 'let's go' if I press x the letter e is replaced with 1. if the string is 'eet's go' if i press x the first e is replaced with 1 and if i press x again the second letter e is replaced.
I'm making a little program that has to count specific characters in a string. Let's say the user inputs a name (I.e. "John Jabbadoo Jackson") and I need to count all the o's in the string. In this case it should be 4. How would the script look like?
View 2 RepliesDoes anyone know what the character limit for a string in AS3 is? I'm generating a rather large XML string in a flash app which I'm sending to a php script to parse and save to a DB. I was stepping through the code and it looks like after a certain period that my XML string is going to blank. I'm assuming that this is because it's going over a limit. I don't really want to change my design but I suppose I'm going to have to if this won't work.
View 6 RepliesI have an array of characters that for some reason is adding commas in between all it's characters.So if:
array[0] = undefined;
array[1] = "b";
array[2] = "a";
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I'm making a little program that has to count specific characters in a string. Let's say the user inputs a name (I.e. "John Jabbadoo Jackson") and I need to count all the o's in the string. In this case it should be 4.
View 2 RepliesI want to change a string, so that it's first character changes into lower case, like this:
var a:String = "ABCdefG"
dosomethingwitha();
trace( a);//aBCdefG