xml/text to array to be searched

[jbrewer]

okay, here is the problem... i have a text file and i have it in xml format as well, in it is a list of 55 companies that i want to load into my movie and have them stored as an array that i can search. I am having a hard time making it happen, though... i am new to using xml and the format is just simply:
<companies>
<name> Akai<name/>
<name> Altec Lansing <name/>
<name> Audio Centron <name/>
<name> Ampeg <name/>
<name> Allen and Heath <name/>
<name> Biamp Systems <name/>
<name> Cerwin Vega <name/>
<name> Community <name/>
<name> Crest Audio <name/>
<name> Crate <name/>
<name> DBX <name/>
<name> Digitech <name/>
<name> DOD <name/>
<name> Dynacord <name/>
<name> Electrovoice <name/>
<name> Eden Electronics <name/>
<name> EAW <name/>
<name> Fatar <name/>
<name> Fender <name/>
</companies>

somthing like that.... and the text file is just the variable companies="blah, blah and blah"
any help would be tremendously appreciated!

[ahmed]

this is how the xml file should look like
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<companies>
<name>Akai</name>
<name>Altec Lansing</name>
<name>Audio Centron</name>
<name>Ampeg</name>
<name>Allen and Heath</name>
<name>Biamp Systems</name>
<name>Cerwin Vega</name>
<name>Community</name>
<name>Crest Audio</name>
<name>Crate</name>
<name>DBX</name>
<name>Digitech</name>
<name>DOD</name>
<name>Dynacord</name>
<name>Electrovoice</name>
<name>Eden Electronics</name>
<name>EAW</name>
<name>Fatar</name>
<name>Fender</name>
</companies>and this AS parses it into an array called 'companies' :)
myxml = new XML()
myxml.ignoreWhite = 1
myxml.onLoad = function() {
this = this.firstChild.childNodes
Companies = []
for(i=0; i<this.length; i++) Companies[i] = this[i].firstChild
trace(Companies)
}
myxml.load("companies.xml")

[jbrewer]

the only problem is that the trace only outputs the first company "akai"... i am looking at how to fix, though.

[jbrewer]

if you just have Companies[i] = this[i] you get the xml output to a string of <name> blahdeeblah </name>... so now how do you split it up?

[ahmed]

i don't get you. What I posted worked fine. Don't use this[i], you should use this[i].firstChild (and that's how i did it in my script.. )

:)

[jbrewer]

your original code only gave an output of the first company - akai. How do you get it to output all the "children" of <companies>????

[Iammontoya]

actually, brewer.. his code is correct and trace shows all the companies listed. Are you trying to incorporate this into a textfield?

btw.. if you're not getting all of the children..hehe.. check your xml file.. make sure you changed all of your "/" to the correct location.

[jbrewer]

you were correct... shame on me for not double checking my xml. I could not figure out why it wasn't displaying... duh.

Yes i am eventually trying to display it in a text field. The story is i have an input field that people can enter in a companies name to see if this company does warranty repair work on that companies gear. I wanted to avoid having to search a database and so i thought i could bring in all the names via and xml doc, turn it into an array and search thru that. I actually got all the way to the array, but searching is turning up the index of the array, not the content. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

[ahmed]

lol, i posted the correct xml file for you, but you used the older one.. :)

[λ]

arrayToBeSearched = ["Kirupa", "lostinbeta", "senocular", "ahmed"];
function searchArray(theArray, searchstring){
var outputArray = [];
for(var i = 0; i<theArray.length;i++){
if(theArray[i].toLowerCase().indexOf(searchString.toLowerCase()) != "-1"){
outputArray.push(theArray[i]);
}
}
return outputArray;
}
//returns another array of matched elements.
trace(searchArray(arrayToBeSearched, "LOS")) //outputs 'lostinbeta'

[ahmed]

that's nice, why not make it a prototype? :)

[λ]

Yeah, I probably will... that was just a 5min example though to help him get the idea really though.

[λ]

Done(-:


Array.prototype.searchArray = function(searchString){
var outputArray = [];
for(var i = 0; i<this.length;i++){
if(this[i].toLowerCase().indexOf(searchString.toLowerCase()) != "-1"){
outputArray.push(this[i]);
}
}
return outputArray;
}

[jbrewer]

so here's what i am trying and my brain must be fried cos i am going nowhere...

search_btn.onPress = function() {
Companies.searchArray(input);
trace(input);
if(input == outputArray){
display = outputArray;
}
}
input being the variable from the input_txt...
gonna keep at it, though.

[λ]

The function I wrote returns an array containing the results of the search, so for the code you wrote, you would need to do something like this:



search_btn.onPress = function() {
var searchResults = Companies.searchArray(input);
trace(input);
display = searchResults;
}


You can use the as tags for code formatting as well.

[*as] code goes here(without asterisks)[*/as]

[jbrewer]

okay, that makes perfect sense, but when i tried it, display displayed all of the companies, not just the one i entered into the search....
this is almost funny....

[λ]

Do you have any more code, or could you post your .fla?

[jbrewer]

okay, here it is...

myxml = new XML();
myxml.ignoreWhite = true;
myxml.onLoad = function() {
this = this.firstChild.childNodes;
Companies = [];
for (i=0; i<this.length; i++) {
Companies[i] = this[i].firstChild;
}
//trace(Companies);
};
myxml.load("warranty.xml");

//search
Array.prototype.searchArray = function(searchString) {
var outputArray = [];
for (var i = 0; i<this.length; i++) {
if (this[i].toLowerCase().indexOf(searchString.toLowerCase()) != " -1 ") {
outputArray.push(this[i]);
}
}
return outputArray;
};


search_btn.onPress = function() {
input = "";
var searchResults = Companies.searchArray(input);
trace(input);
display = searchResults;
};

that is it and the xml doc is the same as the one before...

[jbrewer]

is there anyone out there that can help with why this code is spitting out all the companies in the array instead of just one???

[λ]

in the code above, in my array search prototype, the -1 has two spaces around it. Remove them, or take it out of a string.


Array.prototype.searchArray = function(searchString) {
var outputArray = [];
for (var i = 0; i<this.length; i++) {
if (this[i].toLowerCase().indexOf(searchString.toLowerCase()) != -1) {
outputArray.push(this[i]);
}
}
return outputArray;
};

[jbrewer]

sorry, that didn't do it either... still gives an output of all the companies. I have been trying to see if there is a way in importing the xml that we can do something different, but i am almost out of time on this and have fried my brain on it!!!