ActionScript 3.0 Snippets

str_replace() function

Posted in ActionScript 3.0 Snippets on May 22nd, 2009 by Cam – Be the first to comment 
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function str_replace(search, replace, string) {
	while(string.indexOf(search) != -1) {
		var array = string.split(search);
		string = array.join(replace);
	}
	return string;
}
 
// Example
var str = 'testing\r\nthis';
trace(str);
 
var newString = str;
newString = str_replace("\r", '', newString);
newString = str_replace("\n", ' ', newString);
 
trace(newString);

randRange Function

Posted in ActionScript 3.0 Snippets on March 28th, 2009 by Cam – Be the first to comment

I find myself needing a random number between 2 numbers often. So I wrote this awhile ago and then go trotting back through code to find it. I thought it would be better if I just posted it here for quicker access

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loadXML() Function

Posted in ActionScript 3.0 Snippets on February 2nd, 2009 by Cam – Be the first to comment

This function takes an xml file and creates an object of its contents making it accessible after loading
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