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" " (string delimiter)
Availability
Flash Player 4.
Usage
"text"
Parameters
A sequence of zero or more characters.
text
Returns
Nothing.
Description
String delimiter; when used before and after characters, quotation marks ("") indicate that the
characters have a literal value and are considered a string, not a variable, numerical value, or other
ActionScript element.
Example
The following example uses quotation marks ("") to indicate that the value of the variable
is the literal string
yourGuess
value of
province
must be located.
yourGuess
var yourGuess:String = "Prince Edward Island";
submit_btn.onRelease = function() {
trace(yourGuess);
};
// writes Prince Edward Island to the log file
See also
String class,
ActionScript Core Language Elements
"Prince Edward Island"
is a variable, not a literal; to determine the value of
String()
and not the name of a variable. The
province
" " (string delimiter)
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, the value of
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