Eval Function - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 2.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

Parameters
- The expression to convert into a string and encode in a URL-encoded
expression:String
format.
Returns
- URL-encoded string.
String
Example
The following code produces the result :
someuser%40somedomain%2Ecom
var email:String = "someuser@somedomain.com";
trace(escape(email));
In this example, the at symbol ( ) was replaced with and the dot symbol ( ) was replaced
@ %40 .
with . This is useful if you're trying to pass information to a remote server and the data has
%2E
special characters in it (for example, or ), as shown in the following code:
& ?
var redirectUrl = "http://www.somedomain.com?loggedin=true&username=Gus";
getURL("http://www.myothersite.com?returnurl="+ escape(redirectUrl));
See also
unescape function

eval function

eval(expression:Object) : Objecteval(expression:String) : Object
Accesses variables, properties, objects, or movie clips by name. If expression is a variable or a
property, the value of the variable or property is returned. If expression is an object or movie
clip, a reference to the object or movie clip is returned. If the element named in expression
cannot be found, undefined is returned.
In Flash 4, was used to simulate arrays; in Flash 5 or later, you should use the Array
eval()
class to simulate arrays.
In Flash 4, you can also use to dynamically set and retrieve the value of a variable or
eval()
instance name. However, you can also do this with the array access operator ( ).
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