User Guide

22 Flash Lite Global Functions
length()
Availability
Flash Lite 1.0.
Usage
length(expression)
length(variable)
Operands
expression A string.
variable The name of a variable.
Description
String function; returns the number of characters of the specified string or variable name.
Example
The following example returns the length of the string "Hello":
length("Hello");
The result is 5.
The following example validates an e-mail address by checking that it contains at least six
characters:
email = "[e-mail]";
if (length(email) > 6) {
//trace ("email appears to have enough characters to be valid");
}
loadMovie()
Availability
Flash Lite 1.1.
Usage
loadMovie(url, target [, method])