Re: FLASH: Loading text files as an expression

[Jon Williams]

never done it, but my guess is that

you could do text processing in javascript a lot faster.


(flash 5...hurry hurry)


-jon


Helen Triolo wrote:


> Not sure what importing as an expression means, but yes, can convert the

> hard returns to single-spacing instead of double-spacing by going

> through the input string character by character and outputting

> everything except ord(13)'s (carriage return, or ord(10)--linefeed,

> since flash puts out a newline for both).  I set up the Sockman flash

> site (http://i-technica.com/flashlist/sockman.html) to do that with this

> code on the display buttons:

>

>       Loop While (count <=length(readanswer))

>             If (ord(substring(readanswer, count,1)) <> 13)

>                   Set Variable: "answer" =

> answer&substring(readanswer,count,1)

>             End If

>             Set Variable: "count" = count+1

>       End Loop

>

> but it really slows things down processing large text fields this way.

> It's the only way to get rid of flash's double-spacing though.

>

> hth,

> Helen

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> Randy Anthony wrote:

> >

> > Thanks for the help, but that's still not quite what I was looking for. I'm

> > trying to pull the information from the file in as an expression, so I

> > would have to format the text something like this:

> >          "this is a test" & newline & "this is only a test"

> > Instead of doing this:

> >          This is a test

> >          This is only a test

> > Either I need to import it as an expression so I have more control over the

> > formatting or is there a way to convert the hard returns to single spaces

> > instead of double?

>

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