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22 Flash Lite Global Functions
length()
Availability
Flash Lite 1.0.
Usage
length( expression )
length( variable )
Operands
expression
A string.
variable
The name of a variable.
Description
String function; returns the number of characters of the specified string or variable name.
Example
The following example returns the length of the string
"Hello"
:
length("Hello");
The result is 5.
The following example validates an e-mail address by checking that it contains at least six
characters:
email = "someone@macromedia.com";
if (length(email) > 6) {
//trace ("email appears to have enough characters to be valid");
}
loadMovie()
Availability
Flash Lite 1.1.
Usage
loadMovie( url , target [, method ])