RE: [flexcoders] Hex Issue on a string to number cast?

[Matt Chotin]

When the first digit in a number (or a String being converted to a number) is 0 the Flash Player treats the numberas Octal.  We ended up putting special code in the MXML interpreter to leave “numbers” starting with 0 as strings to avoid the issue since most people are indicating ids or skus etc with something like this.   Matt   From: Rich Tretola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 1:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Hex Issue on a string to number cast?   Thanks, I know that I can use a loop, I was just wondering why the default behavior in actionscript is to automatically assume that testString is hex and that testNumber evaluates to 64 in the sample below: var testString 0100:String; var testNumber = Number(testString); Rich On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 11:49:38 +0530, Manish Jethani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:16:02 -0500, Rich Tretola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a text input that I am using as a free input field for a > > number.  I have it restrictedto 0-9 characters and am casting it to a > > number when setting the value to my object.  The problem is that if > > someone enters a value with a leading 0 such as 0100 it casts to 64. > >       var s:String = "000100"; >       if (s.charAt(0) == "0") { >         for (var i:Number = 0; i < s.length; i++) >           if (s.charAt(i) != "0") >             break; >         s = s.substr(i); >       } >       trace(s); > > Manish > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >