I never would have expected casting an object to a String would return a usable string! (will be interested to try it and look at the string!)
If there was a "key" field in the data provider, you could use the same technique using the key value in place of String(item). Tracy -----Original Message----- From: Manish Jethani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 4:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] dataProvider row filtering / suppressing goran187 wrote: > I am trying to go through the rows of a dataProvider and make sure > there are no duplicate records. Do you know of an easy way to do this > (maybe a built in function?) Use a hash table. AS2 objects are like hash tables. var uniqueItems = {}; for (var i:Number = 0; i < myDataProvider.length; i++) { var item = myDataProvider.getItemAt(i); uniqueItems[String(item)] = item; } Now you can iterate through the values to get the unique items. The code assumes that identical items have identical string representations. Manish Yahoo! Groups Links
