RE: FLASH: help! bogus string literal error in F5

[neo binedell]

hi, in actionscript and javascript a backslash \ character is used as

an escape character to create special characters in a string.

eg. "some text\n" the \n places a newline or carriage return line feed in

the string.

to place a " character inside a string (ie. to not terminate the string in

flash) you

would write "here comes a \" character"


which would give you the string 'here comes the " character'


now because a backslash is considered an escape char, in order to have one

in your text

you have to but a a double backslash like so


	if( char eg "/" or char = "\\" )


and there you go, you're done


regards

neo binedell



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Sent: December 5, 2000 6:28 PM

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Subject: FLASH: help! bogus string literal error in F5



Hey, y'all! ('hey!' is 'hello!' here in the Deep South)

http://www.pioneerdatasys.com/stringerror.html

Above is the link to a screen capture of the error we are getting that

has us mystified. It is giving an error that the string literal is not

terminated, but it is terminated. Code worked fine in Flash 4, but is

giving this error in Flash 5. Can someone shed some light?

'preciate it,

LH



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