I've made some code that loads a line from a text file as a string and puts it into a dynamic field. What I want to do is randomize the letters of the string, but I can't seem to find any functions that do so. Anyone have an idea as to how you do this?
Code:
var url:String = "test.txt";
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
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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 ?
Good technigue for finding out if a string has any letters?I'm not looking for a specific letter, I just want to search a string and find out if it has any letters.
View 2 RepliesFor a rather complex search function I need to get the first letter of each word entered into an input field. At first glance this may not seem like a big problem if every word is neatly seperated by a space.
Although people can enter whatever they want into the field I only want to work with the words that start with a-z or A-Z.
I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how I can determine if a character in the string falls into this selection. One of the possibilities is to use charCodeAt(), but that's rather rough. I can walk through the string using indexOf() but I may have trouble finding the next word if characters other than a space come into play.
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Is there a way to take all the letters out of a string and then use it as a integer?If that is not possible, is there a way to take the first three letters off a string variable? i.e. make myVariable='pic1' into myVariable = '1' Yes? no?
View 4 RepliesFor a rather complex search function I need to get the first letter of each word entered into an input field. At first glance this may not seem like a big problem if every word is neatly seperated by a space. Although people can enter whatever they want into the field I only want to work with the words that start with a-z or A-Z. I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how I can determine if a character in the string falls into this selection.One of the possibilities is to use charCodeAt(), but that's rather rough. I can walk through the string using indexOf() but I may have trouble finding the next word if characters other than a space come into play. Say I have a string like: Super "big hamburger"notice the 'accidental' double space after super) What I want to get out of it is: Super big Hamburgerhich I later decrease to: s b h
View 4 RepliesI want to be able to validate a string so that it doesn't contain any numbers or special characters like '@!�%^' for instance, how would i go about doing this?
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to take the letters I have in a string var, eg "EXAMPLE", and display them in a textField like so:[code]Maybe I'm trying to make it too complicated, but I can't seem to figure it out. I'm using the following code:[code]The textFeild shows nothing (the textField is coded correctly, as it shows regular strings).However, the trace shows it as:[code]I've got the textfield set large enough to accomodate the text.Is there a better way to split a string into individual letters, and then display them in a field one above the other?
View 3 RepliesI've searched high and low for a simple function that gives me all the possible combination of a set of characters with no avail. Anyone here got enough of a maths brain for this one? I want a function around the likes of this: possibleCombinations("abc"); which returns an array: "abc", "ab", "a", "cba", "cb", "c", "..." ETC You'd be doing me a hug favor as a deadline depends in the delivery of this code.
View 1 RepliesAlgorithm to generate all possible letter combinations of given string down to 2 letters
Trying to create an Anagram solver in AS3, such as this one found here:
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I'm having a problem wrapping my brain around generating all possible letter combinations for the various lengths of strings. If I was only generating permutations for a fixed length, it wouldn't be such a problem for me... but I'm looking to reduce the length of the string and obtain all the possible permutations from the original set of letters for a string with a max length smaller than the original string. For example, say I want a string length of 2, yet I have a 3 letter string of "abc", the output would be: ab ac ba bc ca cb.
Ideally the algorithm would produce a complete list of possible combinations starting with the original string length, down to the smallest string length of 2. I have a feeling there is probably a small recursive algorithm to do this, but can't wrap my brain around it. I'm working in AS3.
I want to convert a string with all uppercase letters to title case (all words first letter uppercase ) how could I do that?
so:
TEMPLATE HOME PORTFOLIO
to:
Template Home Portfolio
What would be the best way to simply take a string like
var myString:String = "Thi$ i$ a T#%%Ible Exam73@";
and make myString = "thiiatibleeam";
or another example
var myString:String = "Totally Awesome String";
and make myString = "totallyawesomestring";
I have thumbs placed on the stage. I create an empty mc to load swf. But my thumbs disappear from the stage when I test the movie ( html or swf) if I settle the _ and _y position of the empty mc.why the emptymovieclip positions affect the positions of my thumbnails?
View 2 RepliesWhat i need to do is to randomize the variable named: randomCard if randomCard doesnt equal any value of myCards array. (randomize again if the value of randomCard isnt in the myCards array)
obviously youll notice that in this part of the code: while (randomCard != myCards); myCards isnt correctly defined
Code:
private var myCards:Array = [0,2,4];
do {
randomCard = Math.floor(Math.random()*4);
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How would you randomize a specific set of values in a array?[code]...
View 6 RepliesI'm using this code I obtained from a tutorial to run an mp3 player that reads an .xml playlist. Could someone please tell me what I'd need to add/change to the code so that it plays the tracks in a random order each time the player loads - I'm not concerned about omitting repeats. I've tried adding a "random" command to the Array that holds the tracks but this didn't work.
//Setup sound objectvar s:Sound=new Sound();s.onSoundComplete=playSong;s.setVolume(75);
//Array of songsvar sa:Array = new Array();
//Currently playing songvar cps:Number=-1;[code].......
I need to make an animation in which you are shown 5 doors. if clicked, 4 of the doors will make the screen fade out, and a message that says congratulations will pop up. however, 1 of the 5 doors will make a tiger jump out if it is clicked.however, the door that the tiger should be assigned randomly.
View 3 RepliesI have a simple mp3 player in AS2 and I need a way to randomize the songs.Here is my AS2 code.
var s:Sound = new Sound();s.onSoundComplete = playTracks;s.setVolume(75);
var sa:Array = new Array();var cps:Number = -1;var pos:Number;[code].....
Does anyone know if it is possible to randomize assets in Flash. Basically I am creating a flash based application which when the user hits a target button the preceeding screen should show a completely random asset (which would be an SWF), at the moment each button is simply tagged to a particular swf, although i need it to be more random than this?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to get flash to randomize an arithmetic operator from a set of operators, i.e.operators = + - * / etc and I want flash to randomly pick one from the list!How do I do this? I looked at the random tut on kirupa but I don't know how to make it work with anything other than numbers!
View 12 RepliesI've got 2 arrays that I want to randomize together. So if array one (1,2,3,4,5) is randomized to be (5,2,3,4,1), how can I have the second array randomize to that order?[code]how can I say "make the xArray correspond with the random order of the zArray" with AS?
View 8 RepliesI have an array of 10 buttons 2 rows of 5 buttons each.
I was wondering how I might randomize the button placement,each time a randomizeButton function is called.What I mean is keep the rows but how they are lined up and showing will be different each time.
How to randomize them but with only selected frames For example i only want frame 2-9 to be randomize can i do such things?
View 2 RepliesSay I have an array:
myList:Array = new Array();
myList = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];
myRandomList:Array = new Array();[code].............
However, is there a way to rewrite this as a function?
I am working on a flash game that has 'waves' of soldiers kind of like the game Weapon.
what I am trying to do is randomize and array I have which contains strings[code]...
I think this is possible, but I'm not sure how it would be done. I have a flash website under construction that i am building using CS4. The background was made with Poser 8, as well as most of the content. What I have is 7 flames that flicker. The flames are one MovieClip that I have placed on the stage as 7 instances. I think the flame looks great, but 7 of them all flickering exactly the same looks silly. The clip is 10 frames that loop. So...
1) could I use AS to load and play the clip starting at different frames? like instance 1 starts on frame 1, instance 2 starts at frame 5 etc, so that none flicker exactly the same?
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i m doing a qiuz with several question and each page has a question. My math random() function got some problem so my question maybe can play more than twice
View 5 RepliesWhat would be the best way to randomize a custom course list I have created entered into a list box? The data is being added using [code]
View 2 Replieshow can you randomize the results of an array in a for loop?
I am loading data in via xml and when doing a for loop to iterate through instead of showing 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ect... how can i randomize for [i] ? If i do it in the for loop it keeps doing the randomizing and gets stuck and if after things are already loaded. how is it done?
It appears the same rotation for every branch. Is this not the correct way to randomize a loop?
Code:
for (var i:Number=0; i<branchAmount; i++) {
branch.graphics.lineStyle(1, 0x333333,1);
branch.graphics.moveTo(0,0);
branch.graphics.lineTo(0,-50);
branch.x=trunks.x;
branch.y=trunks.y;
branch.rotation=Math.floor(Math.random()*160)-90;
branchArray.push(branch);
addChild(branch);
}