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Quicktip #3: Getting newlines parsed correctly from XML to AS3

Posted by Bart Claessens on November 25, 2008
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Today I stumbled upon the following problem while parsing an xml: I tried to parse an attribute of an XML node which contained ‘\n’-characters and tried to put this parsed text into a dynamic text field on the stage.
Guess what, instead of parsing ‘\n’ to a newline, AS3 showed me the ‘\n’ in my text. This is not as I had hoped.

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Code snippet: Trimming texts in AS2

Posted by Bart Claessens on November 21, 2008
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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:

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