String Variable Issue - please help

programming flash
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Flash 8, I have some XML creating a few simple arrays. These pull some movie clips onto the stage with incremented names: product1, product2 and so on.

Inside these clips I have some code that is supposed to pull data from the arrays and put that data into text fields.

The code goes like this:

whichclip = this;
trace ("whichclip is this? = " + whichclip); - output: whichclip is this? = _level0.product1

var temp:String = whichclip;

var temp:String = temp.toString();

trace (temp.length);
char_pos = ((temp.length)-1);

lastpos = temp.substr(-1,1);
trace (lastpos); - output: ] - :to: why a bracket?

– end code

Shouldn’t this last output be the number 1? I want to use this number to call the correct node for each clip, and therefore the correct data associated. Any ideas? thanks, John

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[QUOTE=jfx1026;1984922]Flash 8, I have some XML creating a few simple arrays. These pull some movie clips onto the stage with incremented names: product1, product2 and so on.

Inside these clips I have some code that is supposed to pull data from the arrays and put that data into text fields.

The code goes like this:

whichclip = this;
trace ("whichclip is this? = " + whichclip); - output: whichclip is this? = _level0.product1

var temp:String = whichclip;

var temp:String = temp.toString();

trace (temp.length);
char_pos = ((temp.length)-1);

lastpos = temp.substr(-1,1);
trace (lastpos); - output: ] - :to: why a bracket?

– end code

Shouldn’t this last output be the number 1? I want to use this number to call the correct node for each clip, and therefore the correct data associated. Any ideas? thanks, John[/QUOTE]

whichclip = this._name;
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[quote=stringy;1984973] ActionScript Code:
[FONT=Courier New][LEFT]whichclip = [COLOR=#0000FF]this[/COLOR].[COLOR=#0000FF]_name[/COLOR];
[/LEFT]
[/FONT]

[/quote]

This helped. Once I was able to lose the _level0 nonsense, the substr worked like a charm.

Final code looked like this:

whichclip = (this._name);
trace ("whichclip is this? = " + whichclip);

lastpos = whichclip.substr(-1,1);
trace (lastpos);

t = _parent.titles[lastpos-1];
s = _parent.subhead[lastpos-1];
c = _parent.contents[lastpos-1];
p = _parent.image[lastpos-1];

imagemc.loadMovie§;
stop();