Good point! That function has been hanging around in my library for about 2
years and I never really thought much about it...
Thanks,
Jim
On 9/12/06, Mike Keesey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why not just:
public static function contains(str:String, val:String):Boolean {
return str.indexOf(val) >= 0;
}
?
A tad more concise (you don't need the "? true : false" part), and
avoids the problem your function has that if str is null or undefined,
it returns true.
―
Mike Keesey
> -----Original Message-----
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Kremens
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:25 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] does actionscript have something like sql's
IN
> orLIKE ?
>
> Hi,
>
> Try this for checking if one string contains another:
>
> public static function contains(str:String, val:String):Boolean {
> return str.indexOf(val) != -1 ? true : false;
> }
>
> Also, try to avoid attaching your functions directly to buttons, as it
> makes
> scoping tricky:
>
> this.opened_btn.onRelease=function(){
>
> Check out the Proxy class here for a better way to handle that:
> http://www.person13.com/articles/proxy/Proxy.htm
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Jim Kremens
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