flash actionscript: How do you strip special characters from a text in Flash? For example, the
viewer enters this in the Input Text field:

strin/tg<!--fun-->

How do I get rid of the / < > ! - ? I would like to know because I don't want
a viewer to enter bad characters in a database. Any help would be great, thanks.

create an array of undesirable characters and use the split() method of strings
and join() method of arrays to strip those characters:



badCharacterA=["/","<",">","!","-","?"];
strippedString=inputTF.text;
for(var i=0;i<badCharacterA.length;i++){
strippedString=strippedString.split(badCharacterA[i]).join("");
}