cant use the backslash symbol "\" in my code

[gilesb]

HI all

i have a line of code

countVar=myVar.lastIndexOf("\");

but i am not allowed to export the movie,

if i change the "\" to anything else the the movie is fine -

why is this, i need to use the "\" symbol as i am cutting up a string of a file path.

can i use anything else instead ??


many thanks in advance,

gilesb

[catbert303]

\ is used as an escape character, for example you can use " inside a string like this,

var welcome = "someone says \"hello\"";

or a new line in some text like this,

var myString = "hello\nworld"; // adds a new line between words

In order to use the \ as a regular character in the string you need to escape it using another \

var myString = "something\\something else";
trace(myString.length); // the \\ only counts as a single character
trace(myString.indexOf("\\");

hope this helps

[yasunobu13]

the '\' character is used to escape other non-printable characters such as the newline '\n' carraige return '\r' null byte '\0' and so on. In order to use it, you must escape it, so the \ character is entered as '\\'.

[yasunobu13]

you're too fast for me catbert

[catbert303]

[gilesb]

Hi chaps

many thanks for that

gilesb