[F8] Help with reading infomation from a txt file

Hello all!

I am having a slight problem with my AS these days. I have 2 items on my stage, an input box with the var of "wordMatch"

A button

and a dynamic text field with the var of "matchWord"

uploaded to the server I have words.txt. inside words.txt it looks like this (example):

Code:

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hi
hello
howdy
hola

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What I am looking for is very simple I just can't manage to get it working:

I want the user to input a word in the txt box, click the button and have Flash check if it is in the list. If it IS in the list, then the dynamic text box says "Yay, it's in the list" and if not "Sorry it's not in the list"

Simple it seems, as nothing else needs to happen, I just can't get it to go correctly.

Any help?

~MoN

I guess that would be 3 items on stage, not 2 heh.

No one knows? Am I in the wrong spot? I thought I had it working, but it just broke, and wasn't doing it right to begin with.

Starting over step one...

making my items on the stage.

Next comes AS, if anyone out there can help me :)

~MoN

Here's a start, but it read from internal array, not txt file.

Code:

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var txtList = new Array("hi", "hello", "howdy", "hola");
//
btn.onRelease = function() {
        var foundIt = false;
        for (var i = 0; i < txtList.length; i++) {
                if (txtList[i] == wordMatch) {
                        foundIt = true;
                        break;
                }
        }
        if (foundIt) {
                matchWord = "Yay, it's in the list.";
        } else {
                matchWord = "Sorry it's not in the list.";
        }
};

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hi,

Here's an example.
Don't use var.

Great! Thanks for the advice! I will look and pick apart this code and see how it all works!

I appreciate it greatly!

~MoN