Yet another scripting question

Roxie · **Joined:** February 26th, 2005, 2:44 pm **Posts:** 58

Yes, I feel absolutely silly, but this keeps going bizarre on me.
(I am eventually going to go to use Flex, so I do know that this might not be possible in the published file, but I can't get past it not working now.)

I have an array of 40 elements, array name is beewords. Input text is stored in variable beein. I want to compare beein to see if it's in beewords. If so, I want to display it on the screen, and I've been doing it with the variable beelist. I played with the js functions grep and in, but I get unidentified functions using these, so I tried this:

for (x=0;x<beewords.length;x++){
if (beein=beewords[x])
{
beelist+= " " + beein;

}
}

And my return has either been beewords[0] or beewords[39], the first and last element of the array. It also changes beein to beewords[0] or beewords[39]. Not sure why that is happening????

Anyway, any help is appreciated.

Nitro · **Joined:** March 8th, 2005, 9:40 pm **Posts:** 63

Hi Roxie,

I am not qualified to help you, :oops:

but maybe the answers, by Mackavi, to this post can help...

Code:

//Here's a solution for anybody else that needs to search an array for a specific term. 

myWords = "SNAIL,BEE,CRICKET,ANT,FROG,JUNGLE".split(",") 

myGuess = "SNAIL" 



if (inArray(myGuess)) Debug.trace("Word found - increase score") 




function inArray(str) 
{ 
for (i=0;i<myWords.length;i++) 
{ 
if (String.contains(myWords[i], str, true)) 
{ 
return true 
} else 
{ 
return false 
} 
} 
}

Heres the link to the post.

viewtopic.php?t=2839

Regards

Neil

Paul · **Posted:** September 11th, 2007, 3:04 am

if (beein=beewords[x])

should be

if (beein==beewords[x])

two equals signs are required to test if one value is the same as another value.
One equals sign will transfer the value of the second variable into the first one.

Paul

Roxie · **Joined:** February 26th, 2005, 2:44 pm **Posts:** 58

Thanks for the catch, Paul.

That explains this:

Quote:

It also changes beein to beewords[0] or beewords[39]. Not sure why that is happening????

Still haven't quite figured out why it's only returning beewords[0] or beewords[39]. Guess I'll fiddle a bit more.

Roxie · **Joined:** February 26th, 2005, 2:44 pm **Posts:** 58

Thanks, Neil.

It's coming back with an unidentified function if I use inArray.

mackavi · **Posted:** September 11th, 2007, 1:40 pm

To ask but a daft question,

Elements 0 & 39 aren't the only ones containing the beein value are they?

Juts thought i'd check.

Mack

Roxie · **Joined:** February 26th, 2005, 2:44 pm **Posts:** 58

Quote:

To ask but a daft question,

Elements 0 & 39 aren't the only ones containing the beein value are they?

Juts thought i'd check.

Mack

No, I tried all sorts of matches.
I got it working, but I still can't find where I squirreled it up. Basically, I started from scratch and just copied and pasted the code in a new pub of Opus Professional Type, verified that it woked, and then changed the type to Flex. Works fine in the compiled Flash file. Things beyond my understanding...

Now I want to set a timer, check for duplicates in beelist, and compare beewords to beelist for unmatched elements. Not quite sure how to do this, since beelist isn't an array. Think I need to go read and play with it some more.

And all this help is much appreciated.

mackavi · **Posted:** September 11th, 2007, 10:05 pm

Hadn't caught the part about Flex - prehaps just one of those strange things :-)

As for the timer use the ticker action.

As for the list, use the split command to seperate demarkations into array elements.

Mack

Roxie · **Joined:** February 26th, 2005, 2:44 pm **Posts:** 58

Quote:

As for the timer use the ticker action.

As for the list, use the split command to seperate demarkations into array elements.

Mack

Thanks, Mack. Going to try to see what I can do, but have to wait until Thursday. Got grandkids now...

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