Freezing Loops

[SpikeyOmega]

Hey, I am making something that searches through a starting amount of 200 words, and then if it finds that an entered word doesnt match any of those, it adds it to those 200. Here is the starting script (manual word is the entered word to be checked).

code:

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function prepare2(){

	words.toLowerCase();

	manualWord.toLowerCase();

	for (t = 1; t <= totalWords; t++){

		if (words[t] == manualWord){

			wordNumber = t;

			detected = 1;

		}

	}

	return detected;

	matches = undefined;

	typeGame = undefined;

	wrongText = "";

	aG = false

	bG = false

	cG = false

	dG = false

	eG = false

	fG = false

	gG = false

	hG = false

	iG = false

	jG = false

	kG = false

	lG = false

	mG = false

	nG = false

	oG = false

	pG = false

	qG = false

	rG = false

	sG = false

	tG = false

	uG = false

	vG = false

	wG = false

	xG = false

	yG = false

	zG = false

	if (detected == []){

		addWord(manualWord);

	}

	redirectTwo();

}

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Heres is the addWord() function, and all the things related to it:

code:

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//Saving

var saver:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("tester4");

if (saver.data.playedBefore == undefined){

	saver.data.playedBefore = true;

	saver.data.savedWords = words;

	var totalWords:Number = 200;

	saver.data.totalWords = totalWords;

	saver.flush();

	trace(saver.data.totalWords);

}else{

	words = saver.data.savedWords;

}

function addWord(newWord){

	totalWords ++;

	wordNumber = totalWords;

	saver.data.totalWords = totalWords;

	words[totalWords] = newWord;

	saver.data.savedWords = words;

	saver.flush();

}

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Now, whenever it performs the loop, the alert popup that says it is running slowly comes up. Is there a way to fix this problem?

[Trickman]

// testing - populate an array (words)
var words = new Array ();
for (var i = 0; i < 200; i++)
{
	words.push ('word' + i);
}
// changed the way the word is passed to the function
function prepare2 (word)
{
	// convert the word to lowercase
	var mwc = word.toLowerCase ();
	for (t = 1; t <= words.length; t++)
	{
		if (words[t].toLowerCase () == mwc)
		{
			// if there is a match stop the loop
			return true;
		}
	}
	// if we've reached here - the word is not in the array, so add it
	addWord (word);
	redirectTwo ();
	// end the function
	return false;
}
// simulated
function redirectTwo ()
{
	trace ('redirectTwo');
}
// simulated to show it working
onMouseDown = function ()
{
	// word will be addd on mouse down - testing
	prepare2 ('notinarray');
	// word is already in array - not added
	prepare2 ('word2');
};
//Saving
var saver:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal ("tester6");
if (saver.data.savedWords == undefined)
{
	saver.data.savedWords = words;
	saver.data.totalWords = words.length;
	trace (saver.data.totalWords);
}
else
{
	words = saver.data.savedWords;
}
function addWord (newWord)
{
	trace ('adding word');
	saver.data.savedWords.push (newWord);
	saver.data.totalWords = words.length;
}

[SpikeyOmega]

Thanks!