search string function

[bobcahill]

I need to be able to get the int returned on this. If I serach for any letter as a string I get the search function working right. If I run it like it is below I get back 0, which I should get 3. Any ideas

var testString:String = "the.rieh";
var getBack:int = testString.search(".")
trace(getBack);

[SquirtGun]

Try using indexOf(); instead of search(".");

Your code would then be:

var testString:String = "the.rieh";
var getBack:int = testString.indexOf(".")
trace(getBack);

~squirt

[bobcahill]

that works perfect. Thanks for the quick reply

[JonnyR]

Incase you were wondering, the String.search() method is used for regular expressions (regexp) which is a sub language dedicated to working with Strings. You can find out more about RegEx and how to build your own from the Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_Expressions).