Re: FLASH: how to use string.fromCharCode()

[Andrew Shirk]

oh. JEEZuzz!! Now *that's* intuitive after reading

"myString.fromCharCode(c1,c2,...cN); " in the manual!! Sheesh Macromedia.


Oh well. I knew normal mode must be good for something :)  thank you so

much for the reply, helen. i was beginning to think nobody else knew either.


andrew


>It's a weird one.  After trying a zillion things and getting no results,

>it occurred to me to try normal mode and, voila! got it in the right

>format and got some output.  But it seems only to work as a method on

>the String object itself (not as a method used on an object of type

>string).  The following creates variable x with value "pencil":

>

>x = String.fromCharCode(112,101,110,99,105,108);

>trace("x: " + x);

>

>(of course, so does x="pencil", but if you want to create a string from

>a bunch of ascii values, including non-printable characters like cr and

>lf, then it looks like fromCharCode is the new replacement for chr).

>

>Regards,

>Helen

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>Andrew Shirk wrote:

>>

>> can someone please give me an example of how to actually use

>> string.fromCharCode() ?  it doesn't seem to work as the manuals claim. is

>> this a bug? although mbchr() is very intuitive, it's deprecated.

>>

>> thanks in advance..

>>

>> andrew

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