I want to take a string that contains numbers and search for a specific number within that string. For example, my string is "0 1 3." I want to check to see if the number 3 appears within this string.
View 10 RepliesIm looking to be able to find a number (any number) within a text string, what i ultimately want to do is crop the number out of the string to just be left with a number value, the only problem is the string could be any length and the number doesnt necessarily start at any point from the last characterI have items on the stage named 'image0', 'textfield2', 'button500' etc, as you can see the prefix before the number isnt a fixed length so I couldnt use substr and set an index, and since the number could be any number i couldnt set the index as a certain value before the end of the string. (ie it might return '500' or 'ld2' or 'ge0' in the examples given before)
View 4 RepliesI want to take a string that contains numbers and search for a specific number within that string.
For example, my string is "0 1 3." I want to check to see if the number 3 appears within this string.
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
how can i convert a string ending in a number to a number? lets say i have a string such as somestring3 how can i convert that to a number 3?
View 7 RepliesInside my code i have some variables declared as Numbers, and i get some others from an external source; these variables can either be Numbers or String representation of Numbers. Now, i have to implement some equality controls on these variables, and since i don't know in that moment which type are them of, i'm converting all of them to Numbers (i don't need and neither want to compare strings) via the Number() function which accepts either Numbers or Strings as an input. These controls can compare 2 single variables or a variable and a sum (or subtraction) of other variables, for example:
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I recently bought a new machine and tried to put my Flash 8 software onto it. The serial number was fine, but it requested the serial number of the software I upgraded from, which I no longer have (MX, I think it was. I threw it out ages ago thinking I didn't need it ). I can't even remember what email address my macromedia/adobe account was under, it might even be under an email address for a domain I no longer have.
I do still have the software installed on my old PC. Is there anyway I can find out the serial number of the MX I upgraded from off of the Flash 8 on there? Or it is a lost cause?
How can i find the square of a number?
View 5 RepliesIs there a way to find how many child of movieclip inside a movieclip .. in AS2 just like in as3 there is a property called numOfChildren or something like that?
View 2 RepliesI just completed myXML.load(), now how do I determine how many "picture" nodes is in it.My XML looks like ...
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<gallery>
<picture></picture>
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Id like to set a grid based on the closest square. I know in my mind that 3x3=9 and i know that if i have 10 items, well 9 isnt enough, but 12 is....
View 2 RepliesI need to check if a number is negative and if so, trace "true" and if not "false".
View 2 Repliesi have a gallery of images, 4 galleries actually. I have thumbnails that pop up for each gallery. I want to find out how to detect which thumbnail is being selected so i can load the appropriate image.
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var picNum:Number
picLoad.load(new URLRequest(myXML.Gallery[galNum].Image[picNum].@picURL));
stage.addChild(picLoad);
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I need to trace the current level number that I am working on. So say I have 3 swf's loaded onto different levels (_level0, _level1, _level2, _level3), and each has a button, so when I press the button in level1, the number will trace 1, press button in level2, number will be 2, etc.
View 1 RepliesI recently purchased a macbook pro from eBay which had Flash CS4 already installed on it, but which didn't come with the original documentation or CDs that would have had the serial number. The seller said he would send along the appropriate numbers when he tracked them down, but he never got back to me again. I'd like to upgrade to Flash CS5 now, so is there any way I can find the serial number through the software itself? I've seen similar threads to this one elsewhere in the forums and the most promising answers have involved people locating truncated numbers in the software and asking Adobe to decrypt them. Unfortunately, I can't even find these truncated numbers...
View 2 RepliesI'm using the TouchEvent listener rather than the TransformGestureEvent listener because the TransformGestureEvent listener's built in gestures (particularly zoom) seem to be extremely slow and poorly thought out. So I'm dealing with raw touch data and I need to find the number of current touchpoints. Is there a method that returns the number of touchpoints currently on the screen?
View 1 RepliesWhat is the best way to find the closes value in a range...
for example i have an array with 0, 90, 180, 270, 360.And a number 46...
What is the best way to find 90 in the array?
I'm trying to work out a logic for a game (in Flash). In one part, given the following row:
_ _ * _ _ __ *
I need to find if all the spaces between the *'s are empty (Non-empty values other than * can occur in the row). This operation is done quite frequently. I was wondering if I could use bit representations of rows to achieve this, instead of looping through and checking the intermediate positions.
For a row _ _ * _ _ _ * represented as xx1xxx1 (x = 1 or 0), I could AND it with 0001110 so that if the answer is 0000000, the intermediate positions are empty.
The question here is, of course, how to find this second map (0001110 above) using bit operations (in Flash AS2)? (Map (1,4) -> 0110, (1,3) -> 0100 etc) Or is looping through the intermediate positions just the better choice?
I have a for loop that arranges icons in rows, and I want 6 icons per row. The number of icons is variable. So I was thinking that if I can find out how to test if a number is a perfect multiple of 6 (or 7, I suppose), I could then add a line in the loop that changes the _y value of the thumb to a higher number and resets the _x value to 0, thereby creating a new line. how do you test to see if a number is round?
View 4 RepliesIs it possible to find out the number of frames of a movieClip using actionscript? Like in the main timeline have some actions in frame 1 to find out the number of frames in "content" movieClip?
View 2 RepliesIs there a way to find the number of mp3 files on the server using Actionscript? For example, I want to load all the mp3 files stored in a path on the server and I would like to assign a variable to hold the value for number of files. The variable is later being used for another purpose.
View 1 RepliesI'm loading a few bits of text into a dynamic textbox and I want to know if it's possible to find out the number of lines its taking up. Using the height of the textbox isn't an option as the text varies all the time.
View 1 RepliesEssentially I need the MC to know whereabouts in the Array it is
Say you pick a movieclip at random, and assign in a function, how do you find out what number in the Array it is and remove it from the array?
For example...
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for(a=0; a<arrayInQuestion.length; a++) {
if(arrayInQuestion[a]!=this) {
if(dist>50) {
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But of course, "this" doesn't work, so I need to find out what number "this" is
Of course, it would be easy to remove the MC that I am checking "this" for distance with, it would just be splicing array[a], but it's "this" that I am just not sure how to splice.
I have a swf loading mp3s from an external folder. The number of mp3s will vary from time to time. Is there a way to determine how many mp3 files there are in the external folder... without the use of a data file such as .xml?
View 4 RepliesI am new to actionscript. Is there a way to find the number of mp3 files on the server using Actionscript? For example, I want to load all the mp3 files stored in a path on the server and I would like to assign a variable to hold the value for number of files. The variable is later being used for another purpose. How can I do so? I am very new in programming and know nothing much about actionscript. I would be very glad if someone could share the expertise and knowledge in this area with me. Looking forward to some replies soon.
View 1 RepliesIs there an XMLList equivalent to Array.indexOf?
For example -
var array:Array = ['one','two'];
trace(array.indexOf('two')); // returns 1, since it's at the second position
trace(array.indexOf('three')); // returns -1, since it isn't found
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there's got to be an easier way to check to see if one of the nodes in the XMLList has a particular value than looping through all of them, right? something akin to -
xmlList.indexOfChildByNodeValue('two'); // returns 1, because it's the second child
xmlList.indexOfChildByNodeValue('three'); // returns -1, because it doesn't match any children
I want to prevent users from using webcam emulators, I have done that in AS2 by using senocular's function, but I can't make it work in AS3,so, here is the old version by senocular , and I would like to do the same in AS3, tried using indexOf but doesn't work, I need to find at least the first 4 characters of the string and compare them to the item inside the array in AS3![code]...
View 2 RepliesI 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".
I have a function that finds the position of a specific string.[code]...
But indexOf searches the string and returns the position of the first occurrence.I know there's a startIndex parameter but I dont know how to use it so that I could go through an entire string.
Like for example: " Hello there little boy. What's your name boy?"
How can I get the position of first boy word and then the position of second boy word ?
I need to find all url's inside string ex. "abc [URL]. I have tried few regeps but they worked only if all string was url, otherwise regexp has no matches. I would be gratefull fo a clue or working regexp.
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