MACROMEDIA FLEX-FLEX ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference page 417

The following example shows that if you use an empty string (
each character in the string is placed as an element in the array:
var my_str:String = new String("Joe");
var my_array:Array = my_str.split("");
for (var i = 0; i<my_array.length; i++) {
trace(my_array[i]);
}
/* output:
J
o
e
*/
See Also
Array.join()
String.substr()
Availability
Flash Player 5.
Usage
my_str.substr(start:Number, [length:Number]) : String
Parameters
A number; an integer that indicates the position of the first character in
start
used to create the substring. If
from the end of the string, where the -1 is the last character.
A number; the number of characters in the substring being created. If
length
specified, the substring includes all the characters from the start to the end of the string.
Returns
A string; a substring of the specified string.
Description
Method; returns the characters in a string from the index specified in the
through the number of characters specified in the
not change the string specified by
Example
The following example creates a new string, my_str and uses
in the string; first, using a positive
var my_str:String = new String("Hello world");
var mySubstring:String = new String();
mySubstring = my_str.substr(6,5);
trace(mySubstring); // output: world
mySubstring = my_str.substr(-5,5);
trace(mySubstring); // output: world
is a negative number, the starting position is determined
start
length
; it returns a new string.
my_str
parameter, and then using a negative
start
) for the
delimiter
""
start
parameter. The
substr
to return the second word
substr()
start
String.substr()
parameter,
to be
my_str
is not
length
parameter
method does
parameter:
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