Weird Question?

[programma]

I have an input textfield, instance name 'show_txt' and I have a button instance name 'show_btn'

Is it possible so that on the button press, it sees if the user_txt starts with "!show", and if so, strip the "!show" and trace the text after that?

[brickhouse420]

I have an input textfield, instance name 'show_txt' and I have a button instance name 'show_btn'

Is it possible so that on the button press, it sees if the user_txt starts with "!show", and if so, strip the "!show" and trace the text after that?

this is really easy, look up substring!
it will extract the info from to indexs.

!show_hotdogs

[0][4] !show [5][show_text.length] basically thats hwat you do. look up substr with F1

[programma]

can anyone help?

[whispers]

show_btn.onPress = function(){
    var targetString:String = show_txt.text;    
    
    //check first four characters of our string match
    var firstFour:String = targetString.substr(0,5);
    if(firstFour == "!show"){
        //yes it is there
        var finalString:String = targetString.substr(5);
        trace("FINAL STRING: "+finalString);
    }else{
        //no it isnt there
        var finalString:String = targetString;
        trace("FINAL STRING: "+finalString);
    }
}