FLASH: Calculating string lengths of variables

[Paul Willoughby]

Hi, I've subscribed to Flasher-l to get answers to questions I couldn't find

elsewhere. I'm trying to use the 'Length' operator to get the length of a

variable and set it as a new variable. I use this code: 'Set

Variable:"/:Length" = Length (/:A2A)', where /:A2A is a variable I've loaded

from a text file. Now, I know the word I loaded has only four letters, but

Flash keeps returning the /:Length variable as 6. So I changed the loaded

variable /:A2A to a 7 letter word, and Flash returns 9. Where's it getting

these extra 2 characters from? I can get round the problem by just

subtracting 2, but I'd like to know if anyone else has experienced this. Is

it a bug or what?


Cheers!


Paul



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