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Tracing a string sequentially

May 20, 2012 7:26 AM

I am trying to write code that traces the individual letters of a string.

For instance, it would trace the word "high" as "h","i","g" and"h".

The closest I've gotten is this code:

 

var sampleword:String = "high";

for(var i:uint=0; i<sampleword.length;i++)

trace (sampleword.slice(i))

 

It traces the word high as "high", "igh", "gh" and "h".

I attempted to ad a second for loop with a higher value, but that did not achieve what I wanted:

 

var sampleword:String = "high";

for(var i:uint=0; i<sampleword.length;i++)

for(var j:uint=1; j=sampleword.length;i++)

trace (sampleword.slice([i,j]))

 

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?

386 Views   3 Replies   Latest reply: Ned Murphy, May 20, 2012 2:10 PM
 
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  • Ned Murphy
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    1. Ned Murphy,
    May 20, 2012 7:34 AM   in reply to witherton
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    Use:

     

    var sampleword:String = "high";

    for(var i:uint=0; i<sampleword.length;i++)

    trace (sampleword.charAt(i))

     
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    2. witherton,
    May 20, 2012 11:51 AM   in reply to Ned Murphy
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    Thanks! Appreciate it!

     
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    3. Ned Murphy,
    May 20, 2012 2:10 PM   in reply to witherton
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    You're welcome.  You could have done it using the slice method, but that requires two arguments.  You should look it up in the help documentation if you want to resolve it still.

     
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