gurus, help with string manipulation

[grish]

thanks a lot of someone can help with this one.

my string takes the form of path to a .swf that looks like this: "video/test.swf" where test may be any name for the .swf and any length. for example it might be video/bigmovie.swf or video/thebadmovie.swf etc.

i need to extract everything inbetween the"/" and the"." so i can use that to reference a frame label that has special info for that .swf

any ideas?

thanks.

--grish

[ikandi-mac]

in understand you correctly, you want something like a list to pull directory & file names from a remote location and flash sort them into a list for users to click on read info on it, and watch them is wanted correct?

[grish]

ikandi-mac, thanks for your repily. it isn't that complex, fortunately.

i'm loading one at at time about 60 video.swf's into a movie clip that has a controller and stuff and a clip that has info for each movie, with at button click. so i'm trying to use the name of the loading .swf to jump to the correct frame in a info clip so i dont have to code in a bunch of ifs for each loaded .swf that basically converts the filepath into a frame label. the frame lable seems to not be valid with a "." or a "/" in it. or both, i didn't isolate which one is messing things up.

i want to have a little function that looks at the filepath and assigns a variable "jumpTo" with the part of the filepath i described in the above post. then it does this:

info.gotoAndStop(jumpTo);

so i'm passing the file path to a function but i want to avoid having to code up 60 if's . if you catch my drift...

function showInfo(moviePath) {
if (moviePath == "video/test.swf") {
info.gotoAndStop("test");
}

if (moviePath == "video/testbig.swf") {
info.gotoAndStop("test_2");
}
}


thanks so much if you can help

--grish

[catbert303]

Hi,

code:

---

function findFileName(filePath) {

	var pathArray = filePath.split("/");

	return pathArray[pathArray.length - 1].substr(0, pathArray[pathArray.length - 1].indexOf("."));

}

---

which could be used like this,

trace(findFileName("videos/files/test.swf")); // displays test
trace(findFileName("somewhere/something.swf")); // displays something
trace(findFileName("/a/b.swf")); // displays b

[grish]

that's exactally what i was looking for and better. catbert303, you rock. thanks a ton.

--grish