Split a string into an array - seems slow?

I have noticed that flash seems to be very slow at splitting a long string into an array. Anyone else noticed that?

I am pulling a list of files into flash using SWF Studio and into the flash varible called ssfilelist. ssFileList would then look something like this: ("myfile1.txt,myfile2.doc,myfile3.ini,etc...") for 80 files.

myfilearray = _parent.ssFileList.split(",");

The above code takes nearly 15 seconds to run with 80 files in it. Worse of all, it stops everything while is splits the string into an array. All movies stop. If there are 150 files in the directory, flash thinks it crashed with the pop up message, do you want to continue!!

Anyone know of a faster way to do it?

I am using a win 98SE on a p400.

BTW, i have split the code out into different frames and SWF studio grabs the files from the folder and populates the flash varible very fast, it is when flash gets to splitting the string into an array that everything stops. Also, SWF studio is a 3rd party application for flash and for cdrom deployment. However, this question was unanswered on the Standalone forum. I thought maybe the actionscript code might be more familiar to this group.
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Jim Booth

Hi,

here is some code I found at one of these forums: http://board.flashkit.com/board/show...hreadid=194633

Musicman

Thanks a bunch Musicman....

I tried that code, it dropped the time to run it from 15 seconds to 3 seconds. But I don't have a clue how? Anyone got any ideas? I used to think i knew actionscript. But after this huge breakthrough, I see I don't! ;)

thanks again Musicman. This was a huge help!

Where Can I get more info on this SWF Studio???

thanX

SWF Studio is made by Northcode. http://www.northcode.com. It is a very cool tool, for making windows exe's. Let me know if you need more info..

jim