flash (macromedia): Hi to all:

How can I detect a string contains a certain string.

I want my user to input a sentence and as long as this sentence contains a
certain word(s) I am looking for, that the user is allow to move to some
frames.

for example:

If the user entered "My name is Larry James".

And the word I am looking for is Larry, is there a function to scan through
the whole sentence and detect the presence of Larry?

sample code would be appreciated.

thanks

Baba.

If you don't want it to consider the match found when uppercase doesn't
match lowercase:

booFound = Boolean(strSentence.indexOf(strSearch)+1);

If you want "larry" to be considered equivalent to "Larry":

booFound =
Boolean(strSentence.toLowerCase().indexOf(strSearch.toLowerCase())+1);

Application of the latter, which will show you the result:

strSearch = "larry";
strSentence = "My name is Larry James";
booFound =
Boolean(strSentence.toLowerCase().indexOf(strSearch.toLowerCase())+1);
trace("strSearch: "+strSearch+" | booFound: "+booFound);


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There most certainly is. Check out http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary692.html

Hope this helps,

Iwein



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