Hi!
I’m making a digital sign in flash that shows the weather forecast from an RSS feed, with the time and a description of the weather being displayed. The problem is that I want to filter out all the items that describe the weather at midnight (00:00 in the title).
The feed is taken from http://feeds.feedburner.com/yr/NTbA?format=xml and looks like this basically:
<item>
<title>Tuesday 10 July 2012 at 18:00</title>
<description>Rain. 20°C at 18:00. Strong breeze, 6 m/s from south. 2.2 – 8 mm mm precipitation between 18 and 00.</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>Wednesday 11 July 2012 at 00:00</title>
<description>Rain. 16°C at 00:00. Strong breeze, 6 m/s from northwest. 2.3 – 7 mm mm precipitation between 00 and 06.</description>
</item>
<item>
<title>Wednesday 11 July 2012 at 06:00</title>
<description>Rain. 15°C at 06:00. Moderate breeze, 4 m/s from southwest. 1.2 – 3.2 mm mm precipitation between 06 and 12.</description>
</item>
....
I’ve split the tag so that I can isolate the time. Then I use that variable (clocka[5]) to filter an XMLList called midnatt.
When I trace that list, I get the output I want, the items with a title tag containing 00:00 are removed. Perfect!
trace(tittel)
Tuesday 10 July 2012 at 18:00
Wednesday 11 July 2012 at 06:00
Wednesday 11 July 2012 at 12:00
Wednesday 11 July 2012 at 18:00
Thursday 12 July 2012 at 06:00
…
However, when I split the tittel to again isolate the time, and then trace it, I get undefined in the output. Shouldn’t this trace be filtered the same way as the previous one?
trace(tidpunkt[5])
18:00
undefined
06:00
12:00
18:00
undefined
06:00
My question is: What is the best way to filter out items that contain a tag that contain a certain string? And, what am I not getting here? I bet it’s something basic but I cannot seem to google my way past it.
Any help would be much appreciated!
My as3 looks like this:
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.Event;
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.load(new URLRequest("http://feeds.feedburner.com/yr/NTbA?format=xml"));
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, handleComplete);
function handleComplete ( event:Event ) :void
{
var rawXML = new XML (loader.data);
var items:XMLList = rawXML.channel.item;
for each (var item:XML in items) {
var title = item.title;
var clocka = title.split(" ");
var clockSlag = clocka[5]
var midnatt:XMLList = item.(clockSlag != "00:00");
var tittel = midnatt.title.toString();
//trace(tittel);
var tidpunkt = tittel.split(" ");
trace(tidpunkt[5]);
}
}
