reading 1byte+2byte characters from single xml node

[aldred]

I have an xml file that contains some text in English then straight after some double-byte text in Japanese in the same node. I'm reading it into Flash using node value. Is there any way I can seperate out the English from the Japanese either in the xml or in AS so that I can place the English in one text field and he Japanese in another?

If I could just place some kind of marker character in between the two portions, then look out for that in AS and use it to split the text, that would be fine.

thanks
mark

[aldred]

Using String.split and a specific character seems to be working. Any way to have AS distinguish the 1 and 2 byte characters?

mark

[silentweed]

show us a snippet of the xml structure, it will be easier to help

[catbert303]

If you loop through the text you should be able to check the characater codes of each character to see which is the multibyte text,

Maybe something like this,

var str = "the string with english and japanese text";
for (var i = 0; i < str.length; ++i) {
    var c = str.charCodeAt(i);
    if (c >= 0x0001 && c <= 0x007F) {
        // this character looks english
    } else {
        // multibyte - might be japanese
    }
}