Hi, I think, you need to write a function to remove 0 from string and cast the rest of string as Number.
So probably, a private helper-method in your class can do this....But in ActionScript, any number with 0 as prefix would be considered as an octal.. function getDecimalNumber(numStr:String):Number { if(numStr.indexOf("0")== 0) { return Number(numStr.substr(1)); } return Number(numStr); } -abdul -----Original Message----- From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Diefenthal Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:51 PM To: 'flexcoders@yahoogroups.com' Subject: AW: [flexcoders] Re: Number("011") = 9 ???? Well sorry, I haven't been specific enough. Here it comes: I have got Strings of the form "009", "010", "011",..., "999" which I expect to be a decimal number, and so I was confused, that the output of Number("011") is 9. I didn't know that a 0 in front of literal is a specifier for octal literals. So parseInt("011",10) does exactly what I want to do. It interprets "011" as the decimal 11. My last question was only, whether there is a way to use the Number class to produce this output, because I thought that it is not the most object-oriented way to use the global function parseInt(...)... Thanks for the replies Christoph > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > Auftrag von Gordon Smith > Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2005 20:05 > An: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Betreff: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Number("011") = 9 ???? > > If you do parseInt(011, 10), I'm pretty sure what happens is this: > > 1. The octal literal 011 is compiled as the decimal Number 9. > 2. It is converted at runtime to the string "9", because parseInt expects > to parse a string. > 3. parseInt parses "9" to produce 9. > > Obviously, this is a waste of time. 011 already *is* 9 at compile time. It > is just a different way of writing it, just like 0x09 is a different way > of writing it. For example, try this: > > trace(011 - 1); > > The output is 8. > > - Gordon > > > -----Original Message----- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Abdul Qabiz > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:29 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Number("011") = 9 ???? > > Hi, > > What do you want to do? > > Convert 011 to decimal 11 > > Or convert octal(11) to decimal(9) > > parseInt(..) is a global function and first argument is an expression, so > you can pass number also: > > parseInt(011, 10) -> 9 (decimal) > > You can look at Flash Player ActionScript on: > > http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/htm > l/wwhelp.htm?href=Part_ASLR.html > > > -abdul > > > -----Original Message----- > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Christoph Diefenthal > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 7:34 PM > To: 'flexcoders@yahoogroups.com' > Subject: AW: [flexcoders] Re: Number("011") = 9 ???? > > Ok thank you all, > > I workaround (or isn't it a workaround??) this problem by using > parseInt("011", 10) to get the decimal-system value. > > How can I use the Number-class to convert the values? > Is there a > Number.parseInt() function? > > There is no such function mentioned in the "Flex ActionScript Language > Reference... can you provide me with a better API? > > > Cheers > Christoph > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > > Auftrag von Philippe Maegerman > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Oktober 2005 12:24 > > An: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > Betreff: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Number("011") = 9 ???? > > > > If they are all octal numbers, you can use > > mx.controls.Alert.show("" + Number("011").toString(8)); > > > > Philippe Maegerman > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of jamiebadman > > Sent: mardi 4 octobre 2005 11:34 > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Number("011") = 9 ???? > > > > > > It's performing an octal to decimal conversion. 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