RE: [flexcoders] Re: Regular Expressions?

2008-11-17 Thread Ryan Graham
} HTH, Ryan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maciek Sakrejda Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 12:13 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Regular Expressions? As a String? You *should* be able to use the top-level XMLList()

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Regular Expressions?

2008-11-17 Thread Maciek Sakrejda
As a String? You *should* be able to use the top-level XMLList() function to turn it into an XMLList (note, untested; should be close): var foo:String = ; var fooList:XMLList = new XMLList(foo); Then just iterate over it. I would investigate the XML/XMLList API docs, because your data will be muc

RE: [flexcoders] Re: Regular Expressions?

2008-11-17 Thread Tracy Spratt
I'm with Maciek on this one. Why struggle with text parsing when xml is a done deal? What do you mean by "by the node that I am currently working with"? You can access any node any attribute in several ways, depending on what you are trying to do. Tracy __

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Regular Expressions?

2008-11-17 Thread Maciek Sakrejda
As much as I love regular expressions, this seems like a job for e4x instead: var foo:XML = var color:String = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; var size:String = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; If you don't know your attributes in advance, you can even do something like for each (var attribute:XML in [EMAIL PROTECTED])