get leftmost or rightmost characters from a textfield?

[ericb1]

I have a combobox component and I can grab it contents with cboBox.text But I really need to grab just the leftmost 2 characters or the rightmost 2 characters out of this text field, so I can use it elsewhere in my function.

I can't find any way to grab this, I tried using LEFT() but that doesn't work. Is this even possible?

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

[aldred]

The String.substring method should do the trick ......

Returns a string comprising the characters between
the points specified by the start and end parameters.

mark

[Wizzz]

http://www.flashclue.com/?substring

[ericb1]

Ok, thanks! That worked, but it creates the substring as a string. This is fine, except I'm trying to put it into a Date variable.

So I have:

var time:String = mc.time.text //this is a combobox with times to choose (ex: 07:30 AM)
var mySubstring:String = time.substring(0,2); //this grabs the "07" from the time

But Now I need to compare this time to another time, so I'm trying to use the getTime() method:

var my_dateate = new Date(2004,4,15,mySubstring,0,0)

But I get an error on this b/c I'm trying to insert a string into where a number should be.

Ultimately, I'm trying to get a time so that I can compare it to another time. Any help is appreciated, thanks!!

[Wizzz]

convert it -> http://www.flashclue.com?number\(\)

[ellings]

Not to complaint, but why not direct people to the livedocs?
I believe people would learn more by themselves by learning to use the livedocs..

/Per-Henrik

[Wizzz]

it's simply easier 4 me but u can use your way, I don't care