Nov 21, 2008 0
Quicktip #1: Casting to Number()
Did you know that casting a String to a Number using the ‘as’ operator returns 0 instead of the correct number? Use the Number() constructor to cast it correctly. The same applies for ‘int’ and ‘uint’.
Nov 21, 2008 0
Code snippet: Trimming texts in AS2
From time to time some of us still have to code in oldskool ActionScript 2. A few days ago a colleague asked me for a function for trimming ‘new line’ (\n), ‘carriage return’ (\r) characters, spaces, …
So I ended up searching my archives for a code snippet to archive this functionality and look what I found: