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regexactionscript-3replacesplit
DriverBoy
DriverBoy

Reputation: 3177

As3 Regex or alternative to split strings

i have a html page , i use regex to remove all html tags from the page and extract the text using the below code.

var foo = loader.data.replace(/<.*?>/g, "");
var bar:Array = foo.split("Total");
foo = foo.split(bar[0]);
trace(foo);

And using the same code lines below the replace method i remove every string before the word "TOTAL". It does the job perfectly but now i want to apply and other split to get contents after "TOTAL" and remove the Content after "BYTES".

So when i try to split it up again with 

var bar2:Array = foo.split("BYTES");
foo = foo.split(bar2[0]);

Flash returns a error saying SPLIT is a not a valid method :S I tried several other ways , ( REPLACE ) but still flash produces errors.

Can Anyone help me to get through this ? Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 275

Answers (1)

Timoth&#233;e Groleau
Timoth&#233;e Groleau

Reputation: 1950

".split()" is a method of String. When you did the assignment below:

foo = foo.split(bar[0]);

foo became an array, and thus the call

var bar2:Array = foo.split("BYTES");

was being made to an array, which is invalid (no such method)

What you want instead is this:

var foo = loader.data.replace(/<.*?>/g, "");
trace(foo);
var result = foo.split("Total")[1].split("BYTES")[0];
trace(result);

Upvotes: 2

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