User Guide

174 ActionScript language elements
See also
! logical NOT operator, != inequality operator, && logical AND operator, ||
logical OR operator
, == equality operator, === strict equality operator
" string delimiter operator
"text"
When used before and after characters, quotation marks (") indicate that the characters have a
literal value and are considered a string, not a variable, numerical value, or other ActionScript
element.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 1.0
Operands
text : String - A sequence of zero or more characters.
Example
The following example uses quotation marks (") to indicate that the value of the variable
yourGuess is the literal string
"Prince Edward Island" and not the name of a variable. The
value of
province is a variable, not a literal; to determine the value of province, the value of
yourGuess must be located.
var yourGuess:String = "Prince Edward Island";
submit_btn.onRelease = function() { trace(yourGuess); };
// displays Prince Edward Island in the Output panel
// writes Prince Edward Island to the log file
See also
String, String function
- subtraction operator
(Negation) -expression
(Subtraction) expression1 - expression2
Used for negating or subtracting.
Usage 1: When used for negating, it reverses the sign of the numerical expression. Usage 2:
When used for subtracting, it performs an arithmetic subtraction on two numerical
expressions, subtracting
expression2 from expression1. When both expressions are
integers, the difference is an integer. When either or both expressions are floating-point
numbers, the difference is a floating-point number.