loadVariables and data types

[The_Offspring]

Is there a way to use loadVariables and get expressions rather than literal strings?

[Mr Jorge]

Yeah, I'm having problems with this as well, loading a variable from an external text file:-

value=1

brings it into Flash as value="1"

[The_Offspring]

I cannot understand why Flash does it by default. To me it seems a lot easier to define the variables as expressions by default, since putting " " around a variable in the text file defines it as a string very easily.

[The_Offspring]

Just after writing my last post I found a roundabout way of making the string into a number. Calling the variable value=1 from the text file info.txt, the newNumber command can be used to make it into a numerical expression. Ignoring the loading time, here's the overall code you need to get the variable out of the text file as a number.

loadVariables ("info.txt", _root);
truevalue = newNumber ( value );

If anyone has a way of putting the variables into the text file in such a way that Flash will automatically make it into an expression when loaded from the text file, it would be appreciated.