User Guide

Number.toString() 657
Number.toString()
Availability
Flash Player 5; behavior changed in Flash Player 7.
Usage
myNumber.toString(radix:Number) : String
Parameters
radix
Specifies the numeric base (from 2 to 36) to use for the number-to-string conversion. If
you do not specify the
radix parameter, the default value is 10.
Returns
A string.
Description
Method; returns the string representation of the specified Number object (myNumber).
Example
The following example uses 2 and 8 for the radix parameter and returns a string that contains
the corresponding representation of the number 9:
var myNumber:Number = new Number(9);
trace(myNumber.toString(2)); // output: 1001
trace(myNumber.toString(8)); // output: 11
The following example results in a hexadecimal value.
var r:Number = new Number(250);
var g:Number = new Number(128);
var b:Number = new Number(114);
var rgb:String = "0x"+ r.toString(16)+g.toString(16)+b.toString(16);
trace(rgb);
// output: rgb:0xFA8072 (Hexadecimal equivalent of the color 'salmon')