Really good way to escape all characters you want:

I found out a way to make a really good escape so here it is..

event.data.substr(event.data.indexOf(event.data.sp lit(";")[2]),event.data.length).substr(0,event.data.substr(ev ent.data.indexOf(event.data.split(";")[2]),event.data.length).length-1)

flashkit added some spaces so watch out ^

event.data being: "chat;username;blahreageagrea;#@$@:;f;eweoag;greag rea;g;re;g;fdg;fd;g;re;t;e;r:@!:#$@!:R$;"

Hi,

It just looks like a very convoluted way of splitting some data Alloy.

Not sure how you are passing it over or whatever.

If its just a case of splitting the data using the ";" as the delimiter then you could simply use a reg exp or a simple split.

var theData:String = "chat;username;blahreageagrea;#@$@:;f;eweoag;greag rea;g;re;g;fdg;fd;g;re;t;e;r:@!:#$@!:R$;";

var thePattern:RegExp = /;/g;

var splitData:Array = theData.split(";");
//var splitData:String = theData.replace(thePattern, "\n");

trace(splitData);

Hi, my code uses ; as a delimeter to skip through to the string i want and the rest can still have ";"
your code gets everything between the ";" leaving ; out on areas needed

this ways even better if i want to skip semicolon tell me if you have a better way fruitbeard

var mystr="hey;hey;hey;hey;"
var count=0;
var tempstr=mystr
var colAt:Number=0;
for(var i=0;i<mystr.length;i++){
tempstr=tempstr.substr(1,tempstr.length);
if(mystr.charAt(i)==";"){
colAt++;
}
if(colAt==2){
trace(tempstr.substr(0,tempstr.length-1));
break;
}
}

Hi,

I'm not sure what you are trying to do Alloy.

All that does is trace "hey;hey"

nor with twe first one come to that, perhaps you should illustrate yourself a little better with what it is you wish to achieve and add more code, how are you getting your data, would it not be easier to just import any data in an array in the first place etc etc

also, why use a delimiter that is used for more than one thing, makes things a lot harder, try using a unique delimiter

Hi,

Not sure if this is what you require?

var mystr:String = "hey;hey;hey;hey;";
var tempstr:String;

if (mystr.indexOf(';') != -1)
{
tempstr = mystr.replace(";"," : ");
trace(tempstr);
}

Hi, I am yet to use replace, I will try that thanks.