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TextSnapshot.findText()
Availability
Authoring: Flash MX 2004.
Playback: SWF files published for Flash Player 6 or later, playing in Flash Player 7 or later.
Usage
my_snap.findText( startIndex, textToFind, caseSensitive )
Parameters
An integer specifying the starting point in
startIndex
A string specifying the text to search for. If you specify a string literal instead of a
textToFind
variable of type String, enclose the string in quotation marks.
caseSensitive
of the string in
textToFind
Returns
The zero-based index position of the first occurrence of the specified text, or -1.
Description
Method; searches the specified TextSnapshot object and returns the position of the first
occurrence of
textToFind
method returns -1.
See also
TextSnapshot.getText()
TextSnapshot.getCount()
Availability
Authoring: Flash MX 2004.
Playback: SWF files published for Flash Player 6 or later, playing in Flash Player 7 or later.
Usage
my_snap.getCount()
Parameters
None.
Returns
An integer representing the number of characters in the specified TextSnapshot object.
Description
Method; returns the number of characters in a TextSnapshot object.
See also
TextSnapshot.getText()
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A Boolean value specifying whether the text in
.
found at or after
my_snap
my_snap
. If
startIndex textToFind
to search for the specified text.
must match the case
is not found, the