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

[Helen Triolo]

Yeah, it looks to me like the manual is wrong on this one. It should be

something like:


  myString = String.fromCharCode(c1,c2,...cN) where cn = the ascii value

of a character


because


  myString.fromCharCode(112,101,110,99,105,108);

  trace("myString: " + myString);

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

  trace("newString: " + newString);


produces this output -->

  myString: 

  newString: pencil


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Andrew Shirk wrote:

> 

> 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).

> >


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