Well sorry, I haven't been specific enough.
Here it comes:
I have got Strings of the form "009", "010", "011",..., "999" which I expect
to be a decimal number, and so I was confused, that the output of
Number("011") is 9.
I didn't know that a 0 in front of literal is a specifier for octal
literals.
So parseInt("011",10) does exactly what I want to do. It interprets "011" as
the decimal 11.
My last question was only, whether there is a way to use the Number class to
produce this output, because I thought that it is not the most
object-oriented way to use the global function parseInt(...)...
Thanks for the replies
Christoph
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im
> Auftrag von Gordon Smith
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2005 20:05
> An: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Betreff: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Number("011") = 9 ????
>
> If you do parseInt(011, 10), I'm pretty sure what happens is this:
>
> 1. The octal literal 011 is compiled as the decimal Number 9.
> 2. It is converted at runtime to the string "9", because parseInt expects
> to parse a string.
> 3. parseInt parses "9" to produce 9.
>
> Obviously, this is a waste of time. 011 already *is* 9 at compile time. It
> is just a different way of writing it, just like 0x09 is a different way
> of writing it. For example, try this:
>
> trace(011 - 1);
>
> The output is 8.
>
> - Gordon
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Abdul Qabiz
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:29 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Number("011") = 9 ????
>
> Hi,
>
> What do you want to do?
>
> Convert 011 to decimal 11
>
> Or convert octal(11) to decimal(9)
>
> parseInt(..) is a global function and first argument is an expression, so
> you can pass number also:
>
> parseInt(011, 10) -> 9 (decimal)
>
> You can look at Flash Player ActionScript on:
>
> http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/htm
> l/wwhelp.htm?href=Part_ASLR.html
>
>
> -abdul
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Christoph Diefenthal
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 7:34 PM
> To: 'flexcoders@yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: AW: [flexcoders] Re: Number("011") = 9 ????
>
> Ok thank you all,
>
> I workaround (or isn't it a workaround??) this problem by using
> parseInt("011", 10) to get the decimal-system value.
>
> How can I use the Number-class to convert the values?
> Is there a
> Number.parseInt() function?
>
> There is no such function mentioned in the "Flex ActionScript Language
> Reference... can you provide me with a better API?
>
>
> Cheers
> Christoph
>
>
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im
> > Auftrag von Philippe Maegerman
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2005 12:24
> > An: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> > Betreff: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Number("011") = 9 ????
> >
> > If they are all octal numbers, you can use
> > mx.controls.Alert.show("" + Number("011").toString(8));
> >
> > Philippe Maegerman
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of jamiebadman
> > Sent: mardi 4 octobre 2005 11:34
> > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Number("011") = 9 ????
> >
> >
> > It's performing an octal to decimal conversion. You can use the
> > Number class to convert between various different number bases.
> >
> > Jamie.
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Christoph Diefenthal
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Does anyone know why this happens???
> > >
> > > Try it on your own server :
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > <mx:Application
> > xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2003/mxml";>
> > > <mx:Button label="Value Of String" click="valueOfString
> > ()" />
> > > <mx:Script>
> > > <![CDATA[
> > > import mx.controls.Button;
> > >
> > > public function valueOfString():Void
> > > {
> > >
> > > // the result is 9 ?????
> > > mx.controls.Alert.show("" + Number("011"));
> > >
> > > }
> > > ]]>
> > > </mx:Script>
> > > </mx:Application>
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