Actionscript 3.0 Split Or Explode Strings

If there comes a time when you need to split a string by a delimiting character or set of characters, the ActionScript 3.0 split() method is just dandy for doing that. Similar to the PHP explode() function in which it creates an array containing each substring split from the original string. We can then access the full array or indexed segments of it.

In the following example we use split() to separate using comma as a target delimiter(splitter). Anytime a comma is met in the string, that is where it will be split.
Learn HTML

var myString:String = "Jimmy,Susan,Paul,John";



var myArray:Array = myString.split(",");



trace(myArray[0]);

trace(myArray[1]);

trace(myArray[2]);

trace(myArray[3]);

Jimmy
Susan
Paul
John

Search, Validate, and Replace Using Regular Expressions

Actionscript 3.0 Tutorials - Learn Actionscript 3.0