i haven't got time to look at your code in detail, but you seem
to be mixing up strings and arrays. for both strings and arrays,
using .length will return something (length of string or length
of array). you said
bigURLstring = new Array();
if you meant it to be a string, say something like
bigURLstring = "";
or better
bigURLstring : String = String("");
if you suspect allURLs.length to be the culprit, break up your
code
rndNum = Math.ceil(Math.random() * (allURLs.length + 1)) - 1;
into
var n = allURLs.length;
trace("allURLs type is actually "+typeof(allURLs));
trace("allURLs.length value is actually "+n);
rndNum = Math.ceil(Math.random() * (n + 1)) - 1;
that should give you a clue on what is really happening.
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The Count, Singapore
Learning Objects (e-Learning) Consultant
[quoted text, click to view] Ryan wrote:
> What I'm trying to do is load the test.txt file into flash, and then
> put each value on every line into an array.
>
> My problem essentially is sometimes the allURLs array shows up totally
> empty when I trace it, and allURLs.length NEVER works?! If anyone
> could help me here I would be greatly appreciative!
>
> test.txt file:
> =======================================================
>
http://www.test.com >
http://www.google.ca >
http://www.pbnation.com >
http://www.yahoo.com >
> My Code:
> =======================================================
> bigURLstring = new Array();
> allURLs = new Array();
>
> // The below code removes the extra carriage return windows adds (that
> // is, /r/n, and it changes it to /r only) Also puts each URL in the
> text
> // file to a seperate position in the allURLs array.
> // example: allURLs[1] =
http://www.google.ca >
> urlsfromfile = new XML();
> urlsfromfile.onData = function(data)
> {
> data = data.split("\r\n").join("\r");
> bigURLstring = data;
> allURLs = bigURLstring.split("\r");
> };
> urlsfromfile.load("test.txt");
>
> // This Random number generator also ALWAYS reverts to 0 I believe
> because I'm
> // utilizing allURLs.length which is screwing it up!
>
> rndNum = Math.ceil(Math.random() * (allURLs.length + 1)) - 1;
> randomURL.text = allURLs[rndNum];
>
> ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated!
> Thank you!
