Parseint() - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

parseInt()

Availability
Flash Player 5.
Usage
parseInt(expression:String [, radix:Number]) : Number
Parameters
A string to convert to an integer.
expression
An integer representing the radix (base) of the number to parse. Legal values are from 2
radix
to 36. This parameter is optional.
Returns
A number or
NaN
Description
Function; converts a string to an integer. If the specified string in the parameters cannot be
converted to a number, the function returns
hexadecimal numbers. Integers beginning with 0 or specifying a radix of 8 are interpreted as octal
numbers. White space preceding valid integers is ignored, as are trailing nonnumeric characters.
Example
The examples in this section use the
The following example returns 3:
parseInt("3.5")
The following example returns
parseInt("bar")
The following example returns 4:
parseInt("4foo")
The following example shows a hexadecimal conversion that returns 1016:
parseInt("0x3F8")
The following example shows a hexadecimal conversion using the optional
returns 1000:
parseInt("3E8", 16)
The following example shows a binary conversion and returns 10, which is the decimal
representation of the binary 1010:
parseInt("1010", 2)
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(not a number).
parseInt()
:
NaN
ActionScript Language Reference
. Strings beginning with 0x are interpreted as
NaN
function to evaluate various types of numbers.
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parameter that
radix