Hey guys,
I’m working closely with our resident intern web developer and he’s supplying code for field validation within flash 8. After commenting out a few lines, i’ve determined that the following line is causing the script to blow up :
var remainder = String(str).substr(iLen, iLen – lastIndexOfDot);
Looking in the Flash 8 help files, I found that the original ‘substring’ has been deprecated as of Flash 5 so I plugged in the now commonly-used ‘substr’. When I run a syntax check on the code I get 14 actionscript errors with the first error being 'expecting a ( or a , ’ on the line which the snippet above is located. Here’s the whole function i’m using for clarity sake :
function validateEmail( str, f) : Boolean
{
indexOfAt = str.indexOf("@");
lastIndexOfDot = str.lastIndexOf(".");
var iLen = String(str).length;
var remainder = String(str).substr(iLen, iLen – lastIndexOfDot);
if (indexOfAt !=-1 && lastIndexOfDot !=-1){
if (lastIndexOfDot <indexOfAt) {
trace(f + " email is invalid");
return false;
}
else if String(remainder).length < 2 {
trace(f + " email is invalid");
return false;
}
else {
trace(f + " email seems okay");
return true;
}
}
else {
trace(f + " email is invalid");
return false;
}
}
Not the most bullet-proof email validation, but it will serve our needs well enough for what it’s being used for. Any idea why Flash 8 isn’t liking this small block of code?
