ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

String.split() Method

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Usage

Note that slice() does not modify string; it returns a completely new string.

Example

var fullName = "Steven Sid Mumby";

middleName = fullName.slice(7, 10); // Assigns "Sid" to middleName

middleName = fullName.slice(-9, -6); // Also assigns "Sid" to middleName

See Also

String.substr(), String.substring(); “The slice() function,” and “Combining String Examina-

tion with Substring Extraction,” in Chapter 4

String.split() Method

convert a string into a series of array elements

Flash 5

string.split(delimiter)

Arguments

delimiter The character or series of characters at which to break string when forming

elements of the new array.

Returns

An array whose elements contain the substrings formed by breaking string into segments

demarcated by

delimiter.

Description

The split() method breaks a string into substrings, assigns those substrings to the elements

of an array, and returns that array. Contiguous occurrences of

delimiter without inter-

vening characters result in empty elements. For example, the following code:

owners = "terry,doug,,,jon";

ownersArray = owners.split(",");

assigns the following elements to ownersArray (elements 2 and 3 contain undefined):

0: terry

1: doug

2:

3:

4: jon

The split() method typically is used to convert a string