Flash ActionScript String 95 codes

1 A complete listing of all the escape sequences available to you

2 Access string method directly from the String value

3 ActionScript supports the addition (+) operator for text concatenation

4 Add strings together

5 An example of the newline character used in a string

6 Append text to existing strings by using the concatenation assignment += operator

7 Call the toString() method This method returns the string representation of any type of object if available

8 Call the valueOf() method The valueOf() method of any class returns the primitive value if one exists

9 Changing the Case of a String

10 CharAt() takes one parameter, a value for an index within the string This method returns a new one-character string that contains t

11 Concatenate string by adding integers with string

12 Convert string to characters

13 Convert string to lower case then call the lastIndexOf method

14 Convert string to lowercase then compare

15 Converting a Character to a Character Code

16 Converting a String into an Array

17 Converting a String Object to a Primitive

18 Converting Between Strings and Unicode or ASCII

19 Converting Case

20 Converting Strings to Arrays

21 Create a String object by simply invoking a property or method of the String class from a primitive string value

22 Define string variable

23 Determining the Number of Characters

24 Display n literally, instead of a newline, you can add an additional backslash just before it

25 Escaping Characters

26 Find all the occurrences of a substring

27 Finding Substrings

28 Get the length of a string object

29 Getting a Character Code

30 If you use another delimiter in the string, you need to specify it as the argument for the

31 Initial capitalizing the string

32 Inserting Special Whitespace Characters

33 Is indexOf case sensitive

34 Is lastIndexOf case sensitive

35 Joining Strings

36 Joining Strings with +

37 Newline character, n, which is the equivalent of pressing the Enter key

38 Optionally omit the second parameter, substr returns a substring starting at the specified index and going to the end of the origin

39 Parsing a String into Words

40 Pass string variables to a method

41 Passing String Values to and from Applications (escape)

42 Remove characters or words instead of replacing them

43 Remove every instance of a particular character

44 Remove the br tags and replace them with newline characters (n)

45 Removing and Replacing Characters and Words

46 Replace with Regular Expression

47 Replace(reCase, $2, $1)

48 Replacing

49 Retrieving One Character at a Time

50 Returns everything before the last period, if any

51 Reversing a String by Word or by Character

52 Searching

53 Searching for a Substring

54 Specifying a negative value simply counts backward from the end of the string where -1 is the last character

55 Split method returns an array

56 Split() method can be called using a RegExp object instead of a string as the delimiter

57 String concat( ) appends new values to the end of an existing string

58 String search(pattern

59 Substring method returns a substring starting with the starting index specified and containing all the characters up to, but not in

60 The backslash character has a special function when used in a string literal

61 The escape characters for double and single quotes are and respectively

62 The fromCharCode() method is a static method of the String class returns a new string primitive value with the character that corre

63 The toLowerCase() and toUpperCase() methods are particularly useful for comparing strings in a case-insensitive manner

64 To alter the original string, reassign the return value to it, as follows

65 To determine the number of characters a string object contains you can check its length property

66 ToTitleCase( ) converts a string to title case (initial letters capitalized)

67 Trimming Whitespace

68 Unescape() function does not modify the existing string, but returns a new string

69 Use concat method to concatenate two strings

70 Use indexOf and lastIndexOf to locate specific string

71 Use indexOf in while loop to count the instance of a substring

72 Use indexOf to check the existance of an substring

73 Use indexOf( ) in a while statement to get the indices of every occurrence of a substring

74 Use lastIndexOf to get the file name without extension name

75 Use lastIndexOf to search string

76 Use of a for loop to loop through the characters of a string, one at a time

77 Use offset in lastIndexOf method

78 Use offset index in indexOf method to search substring

79 Use plus operator when defining the string variable

80 Use regular expression in split method

81 Use replace with while loop

82 Use slice

83 Use slice method to cut string

84 Use split method to get the file name and its extension name

85 Use split to convert string to string array

86 Use split(String) method to split String to array of strings

87 Use split(String, index) to split String to array of strings

88 Use String frolmCharCode to create a string

89 Use the lastIndexOf method to get the file extension name

90 Use valueOf method to return the value of a string object

91 Using Quotes and Apostrophes in Strings

92 Using toString to convert object to String

93 Using toUpperCase() or toLowerCase() to make sure that two strings are compared without regard to case

94 Within the replacement string (the second parameter), you can use special values $1 to $9 to indicate the first nine remembered sub

95 Working with Substring Values