Parse and add numbers in a string?

[carpadeim12]

I'm wanting to make a small program that when people paste in some long text like below:

05/01/2009 02:14:59 Ad Package Bonus in amount of 4.
05/01/2009 02:14:59 Ad Package acquired in amount of 16.
04/30/2009 11:05:37 Ad Package Bonus in amount of 2.
04/30/2009 11:05:37 Ad Package acquired in amount of 11.


That I can have a button that will ad up the numbers on the right side

So the solution would be: 33

Any Ideas??

[moot]

This is how you can get everything in between "amount of " and "." from a string and turn that string into a number:

myString = "04/30/2009 11:05:37 Ad Package acquired in amount of 16."
startNo = myString.indexOf("amount of ")+10;
stopNo = myString.lastIndexOf(".");
grabAmount = myString.substring(startNo,stopNo);
trace("grabAmount="+grabAmount);

[carpadeim12]

No matter what is pasted in, it shows 16 only...
See here
http://www.thejoyluckclub.com/BasCalMX.swf


The code behind the button:

on (release) {


myString = "04/30/2009 11:05:37 Ad Package acquired in amount of 16."
startNo = myString.indexOf("amount of ")+10;
stopNo = myString.lastIndexOf(".");
grabAmount = myString.substring(startNo,stopNo);
trace("grabAmount="+grabAmount);

//answer text box below
answer = grabAmount;


}

I'm wanting to make a small program that when people paste in some long text like below:

05/01/2009 02:14:59 Ad Package Bonus in amount of 4.
05/01/2009 02:14:59 Ad Package acquired in amount of 16.
04/30/2009 11:05:37 Ad Package Bonus in amount of 2.
04/30/2009 11:05:37 Ad Package acquired in amount of 11.


That I can have a button that will ad up the numbers on the right side

So the solution would be: 33

Any Ideas??

How can I get the code to look at every line of text??

I know I'm close!

[carpadeim12]

Thank You Moot, but now it only shows 16 for the output no matter what is pasted into the text box...

[a_modified_dog]

see if this method works for you -

// input textfield - instance name - inp
// button - instance name - btn

function findNum(val) {
for (var i=0;i<=val.length;i++) {
char = val.charAt(i);
if (!isNaN(char)){ break; }
}
return parseInt(val.substr(i));
};

btn.onRelease = function(){
total = 0;
arr = [];
arr = inp.text.split("\r");
for(var n=0;n!=arr.length;n++){
arr[n] = arr[n].toString().substr(31); // remove date/time/Ad Package
total += findNum(arr[n]);
}
inp.text = "total = "+total;
}; 

copy/paste to inp textfield -
05/01/2009 02:14:59 Ad Package Bonus in amount of 4.
05/01/2009 02:14:59 Ad Package acquired in amount of 16.
04/30/2009 11:05:37 Ad Package Bonus in amount of 2.
04/30/2009 11:05:37 Ad Package acquired in amount of 11.
results in total = 33

[moot]

Make myString equal to whatever var is assigned to the textbox.

myString = myTextBoxVar;

[carpadeim12]

thanks so much that helps alot!