Is 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
Does 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.
Each line in the dynamic textbox has 15 characters, and yet you can notice the difference in the length(between each line).
I want to make the length of each line look same if they have same number of charaters.
Ive just noticed that my Adobe Image Ready only allows me to save files names of 27characters in length or less.
Is there a general character length rule in working with filenames. I know windows doesnt have a problem what about other OS? Apple etc.?
Im just trying to put really descriptive names in some of my files wokring with flash and photoshop/imageready etc.
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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I am trying to find out what the max length is for a string because since as3 doesnt provide any methods for removing characters from a string by changing the initial string itself, i am going to have to stick to re-initializing.I did a little test to see how long it would take for my program to break using the following code:
Actionscript Code:
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The program crashed at a string length of about 500 million.
EDIT:however before it crashed,it performed the incrementations with reasonable performance.
EDIT EDIT: which is strange since my ram still had over 2 gig the program didnt use
I am working on the following code and I keep getting a cut off at around the 'C' of Dave's computer.I know this is going to be a simple answer but I for the life of me cannot figure out HOW to extend the string visual field. I am pretty sure the secret lies in the variable len.
Code:
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.events.Event;
var txtFld:TextField = new TextField();
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Is there an easy way to get the byte length of a string in AS3? String.length works in many cases, but breaks if it encounters mulibyte unicode characters.(in this particular case, I need to know this so I can preface messages sent across a TCP socket with the message length. This is in standard netstring format e.g. "length:message,").
View 1 RepliesI'm populating a dropDownList with arrayCollection of strings. I want the width of the drop down list control to match with the size (in pixels) of the longest string in the array collection. The problem I'm facing is: the font width of the strings in the collection are different e.g. 'W' looks wider than 'l'. So I estimated the width of a character to be 8 pixels but that's not pretty neat. If a string that has many 'W' and 'M' is encountered the estimation is wrong. So I want precise pixel width of strings. How can i get the exact length of a string in pixels??
My solution that estimates all character to be 8 pixels wide is given below:
public function populateDropDownList():void{
var array:Array = new Array("o","two","three four five six seven eight wwww");
var sampleArrayCollection:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(array);
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I can obtain the number of characters in a string using the 'length' action script command. However, I need to know the pixel width of this 'length'?
View 1 RepliesI have a string provided to my flash file that I need to break into a max of 3 sentences(strings).
I have written some actionscript to break it up by set lengths, but I also need it to not break words up.
To test you can place the following code in a blank as2 file.
Code:
var personalMessage:String = "You got this far so we reckon that you could be curious enough to learn a little more, we�ll contact you shortly to answer any questions you may have.";
_root.myArray = new Array();
_root.myArray = personalMessage.split("");
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I have a string whose length may vary but will always be divisible by 3 and want to push every three characters to an array.
e.g.
var myString = "000111000111";
//magic code converts
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I'd like to know a way to measure the real length of a text string in pixels. The problem is that every character has a different width.The length property informs us of how many characters does the string have...but how do we measure the pixels (x space) in a precise way?
View 2 Repliesjust a simple example:
var a = new Array()
a["apple"] = "red"
a["orange"] = "orange"
a["banana"] = "yellow"
trace(a.length) //returns 0
get it work?
I am looking at "length" property in the Adobe AS3.0 language ref as I do not understand it. It says: An integer specifying the number of characters in the specified String object. (I understand this). Because all string indexes are zero-based, the index of the last character for any string x is x. length - 1. (I do not understand the "- 1". I understand that all string indexes are zero-based but I cant put this together with the last character for any string being -1 or whatever it is saying.
View 7 RepliesI'd like to know a way to measure the real length of a text string in pixels. The problem is that every character has a different width. The length property informs us of how many characters does the string have...but how do we measure the pixels (x space) in a precise way?
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to do a test on the length of a string and then call a function depending on the result. This is the pertinent excerpt from the fla file:
Code:
_loc4._comment = candles[_loc3].comment;
// I want to find out the length of _comment and call differently depending
_loc4.onRollOver = function () {
if (_loc4._comment.length > 0 && _loc4._comment.length < 60) {
show_comment(this._comment, this._x + this._parent._x, this._parent._parent._y - 50);
} else {
show_comment(this._comment, this._x + this._parent._x, this._parent._parent._y - 100);
}};
Basically I want to check the length (in characters) of _loc4.comment and if its under 60 call with an offset of 50 and if its not call with an offset of 100.
I am trying to assign a number to a variable that is dynically generated from a binded array...when i try and assign it and trace it out nothing happens, which means I am obviously doing something wrong but I am not sure? just for fun i decided to bind the data to a label like so...
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Okay what I after is how to detect the length of the string populated from array...then auto rescale the height of the title_mc as shown in my AS as well as the dynamic created textfield ..so the textfield will display long string + "newline" for long string...(autowrapper)..
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How do I get the numbers at the back of the strings.[code]...
View 3 Repliesi made a function for replacing a text letter by letter. You've probably seen this effect of putting in place of a text a random one, with the length of the new text and then replacing the random text, letter by letter with the new one. It worked fine but I had to do some adjustments, because I needed to vertically align the text to the bottom, and I had the newline character in the text which gave me some issues with the aligning. Since I did this adjustments, string.length returns undefined even if trace(string) shows the correct text in the output window. On the other hand length(string) gives me the right answer. I also use the charAt function which also returns undefined, even if the trace function shows the correct text.
View 7 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 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 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.