# I really need some major help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-really-need-some-major-help/684>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 25, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-really-need-some-major-help/684 "2002-07-25T17:39:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![martystudio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@martystudio](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/martystudio)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-really-need-some-major-help/684/1 "2002-07-25T17:39:02Z")

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Ok, pretend there is a site with a page with words on it. I want to know if flash can do this. First it would look at the site, (not show the browser, and see how many times Fred is asome is used in the source code code. Then it would tell you the number of how many times it appears in a dynamic box.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-really-need-some-major-help/684/2 "2002-07-25T18:41:09Z")

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Not quite sure what you mean - flash can parse if that’s what you’re asking but it’s quite slow. Depending on what you want to do it may be faster to use php to parse the url and then write the results to a swf.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-really-need-some-major-help/684/3 "2002-07-25T20:36:52Z")

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> see how many times Fred is asome is used in the source code code  
> Who’s Fred?

pom 😛

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-really-need-some-major-help/684/4 "2002-07-26T00:33:16Z")

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Flash can look at text files and analyze the content, but I’m not sure it can check out people’s HTML sources.

Also, please don’t post this question more than once.

> \*Originally posted by martystudio \*  
> ok,i am making a program(i when i an done i will make it an .exe)that will check a certain page on a website for a certain thing.

Example.WHEN A CERTAIN BUTTON IS PRESSED, I want the program to look a the site’s(note:IM NOT GOING TO TELL YOU THE SITE)source code then look in the source code for img src=“[http://www.example.com/potato.gif](http://www.example.com/potato.gif)” . since this appears more than once on the page i want it to determine how many times it appears. then it will put turn awnser in a number in a text box.

EXAmple: IF IT FINDS 13

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        img src="http://www.example.com/potato.gif"            

 the number in the text box will be 13. thanks. I need to know the action script code

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