String into code

Hi,

I'm trying to create a series of scripts that will create some custom event listeners.

I have three movie clips on my stage. One is a movieclip who's sole function is to hold array's and the event listeners. A second which moves around the screen. And a third that is motionless.

The problem is that the argument I want to test (which activates the custom event) is held within a string.

What I want to know is, how do you test to see if the string argument is true?

Is it something similar to this:

Code:

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var myCode:String="1<0";

if(myCode){
        trace('one is smaller than 0'); //Strangely apparently one IS smaller than 0!!!
}

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I think I'm going about this in the wrong manner, however this is the only way I can think of this working... (since I need to be able to dynamically create these events)

Thanks for any help,
Pokenerd

When you try to evaluate a string there are only two possibilities.

An empty string equates to false
a string with anything in it equates to true

this method you are trying to use will not work.

I was hoping to do something with square brackets, but it turns out those are only for objects, and references and what not...

I think that d.eval might work however.

research string slice and implode. check out the AS3 reference online for that. you may get pretty excited.

p.s: i don't really know if AS3 has string.implode but check.

No, there's no implode method on String, but there is a join method on Array which does the same thing. It makes a lot more sense for the method to be on Array than String anyway.

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Originally Posted by 5TonsOfFlax

No, there's no implode method on String, but there is a join method on Array which does the same thing. It makes a lot more sense for the method to be on Array than String anyway.

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Python uses join as a method of a string. Like: ",".join(mylist)

:)