How to trim text in flash MX for case sensitive inputs?

[notevirus7]

Ok so I proposed a Translator system to my Thesis Project using this Tutorial: http://www.webdesign.org/flash-swish...tor.11073.html

But I need to find a way for the inputs to be not "case sensitive" like when I input "eat" and Eat" only the "eat" text will be translated.

[Steven FN]

You would use toLowerCase();

var str:String = " JOSÉ BARÇA";
trace(str.toLowerCase()); // josé barça

[notevirus7]

Thanks for the reply mate.

I'm a bit new about this program thing so where do I put that code?

The code looks something like this:

bTranslate.onPress = function()
{
var sInput = tIn.text; //Gets the text from the first text field.
sInput = translate(sInput); //Goes through the translator.
tOut.text = sInput; //Sets the second text field to the translated text.
}
function translate(sInput)
{
//This is where you add how you want your text changed.
//It should be in the format of
//sInput = searchAndReplace(sInput, What you want changed, What you want it changed to);
//Remember to use quotes around the text you are changing.
sInput = searchAndReplace(sInput, "why", "y");
sInput = searchAndReplace(sInput, "you", "u");
sInput = searchAndReplace(sInput, "are", "r");
sInput = searchAndReplace(sInput, "for", "4");
sInput = searchAndReplace(sInput, "to", "2");
return sInput;
}
function searchAndReplace(a, b, c) //Searches string a for b and replaces it with c
{
tmp = a.split(b); //Splits a into an array of values where b is.
a = tmp.join(c); //Joins them back together with c seperating them.
return (a); //Returns the changed string.
}

[notevirus7]

I don't where to put the code... please help. Do I do it with all the words inside? Cause it has less than 1000 words.

[fruitbeard]

Hi,

Try this instead.

have an input textfield called "myInputText"

function SetText(A, B)
{
	var Search = A;
	var Replace = B;
	var ReWrite = myInputText.text.split(Search);
	for (i = 0; i < myInputText.text.length; i++)
	{
		myInputText.text = ReWrite.join(Replace);
	}
}

function ChangeText()
{
	var A1:Array = ["why", "you", "are", "for", "to"];
	var A2:Array = ["y", "u", "r", "4", "2"];
	for (j = 0; j < A1.length; j++)
	{
		SetText(A1[j].toLowerCase(),A2[j]);
		SetText(A1[j].toUpperCase(),A2[j]);
	}
}

myInputText.onChanged = function(textField)
{
	ChangeText();
};

That works fine if it is either upper or lower case, but not a mixture (FoR , wHY, WhY)

my hobby

[fruitbeard]

Hi,

To answer your question

this does the trick.

var sInput = myInputText.text.toLowerCase(); //Gets the text from the first text field.;

but i was also wondering if anybody could fix my thing and make it case insensitive too.

Thanks

[fruitbeard]

var sInput = tIn.text.toLowerCase(); //Gets the text from the first text field.