That does seem strange. My first thought would be that there might be some
white space characters around the string in the XML. Try:
trace(":" + _root.country + ":");
Or to remove the change that it's messing up somewhere between assigning to
_root, try:
trace(":" + myXML.firstChild.childNodes[4].childNodes[3].childNodes[0] +
":");
in onLoad().
Adrian
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dls
Sent: 05 February 2006 14:59
To: Flash Coders
Subject: [Flashcoders] variables from XML -- Newbie still having trouble
I am bringing data in from XML, and assigning it a variable name in flash
_root.country = myXML.firstChild.childNodes[4].childNodes[3].childNodes[0];
so far so good, I know it has loaded and when I view my variables
_root.country shows as US.
In my code I am trying to do the following comparison:
if(_root.country == "US"){
//do something
};
Doesn't work. Aren't they both strings? When I test
_root.country = "US";
if(_root.country =="US"){
//do something
};
it works fine.
Is there a way to insert quote marks around the variable from the XML?
Why isn't it working?
Any help would be appreciated!
--dan
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