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Posted: **08 May 2006, 14:09**

Sooo Lapo. I think I found a weird bug.
I've been testing for the last half hour and finally managed to separate the error wich seems to be the following.

I'm developing an extension that sends a long message to the client. Because sometime the parameters will vary I made some custom strings that I parse inside the extension.

Somewhere inside the parsing something went wrong.
I'm using the str method for sending the texts.
The code looks something like this

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function handleRequest (cmd, params, user, fromRoom)
{
	switch (cmd)
	{
		case "debug" :
		var response = new Array();
                // here goes the problem
                ppp = params[1].split (" | "); // this is my separator
               for (var x = 0;x<ppp.length;x++) {
                    trace("ppp["+x+"]=" +ppp[x])
               }

This is where the problem occurs. If I split the params[1] (my second parameter) after a my separator the separator will show up inside the array as an element. Maybe the space is confusing? I don't know .. Maybe you can help on this matter.

If I send a message with a string like "Lapi | SFS | Adrian | goflash"
it will output something like this
[thu_challenge.as]: ppp[0] = Lapi
[thu_challenge.as]: ppp[1] = |
[thu_challenge.as]: ppp[2] = SFS
[thu_challenge.as]: ppp[3] = |
[thu_challenge.as]: ppp[4] = Adrian
[thu_challenge.as]: ppp[5] = |
[thu_challenge.as]: ppp[6] = goflash

Weird.. really weird.
The split actually works when called on a string defined in that function but not when it is recieved a a parameter.

Any insights?

Posted: **08 May 2006, 14:39**

It seems that a params[x] recieved as a parameter is not actually an actionscript string ?

This makes a lot of mess in the rezult array
ppp = params[1].split (" | ");
and this works just fine
ppp = String(params[1]).split (" | ");

I first thought it was the space that bothered the split.. or it worked only with one character... But when I split after the "|" it splited the string by each character ... weird weird weird.

Posted: **09 May 2006, 12:57**

I guess the problem could be in the original type of the string you're trying to split.
Try simple to check its type with:

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trace(typeof(myVar))

If you get "object", then the variables is not a native AS String, if you get "string" then it is and it should work.

In the first case, you can easily cast the variable like this:

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asString = String(myVar)

hope it helps

Posted: **09 May 2006, 13:00**

In the first case, you can easily cast the variable like this:
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asString = String(myVar)

Yes.. already did that and worked. This is how I solved it.

I'll do some tests and let you know though.

Posted: **09 May 2006, 13:14**

It seems you're getting the data to split from the parameters passed by the server, using the string protocol.

If so you will receive a Java string which can be used as an AS string in 90% of the cases.
In the remaining 10% it can have some different behaviours as it supports more methods and some of them are slightly different from those available in AS.

Here's an overview of the Java String object

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