E4X 102 – XML Lists and Queries

8th November 2005 | 0 Comments

Now that we have the basics down for accessing tags and attributes, we come to the real reason why Flash 8.5 has regular expression support, XML lists. An XML list is an array of XML nodes, but the array is usually created by performing a query on an XML document.

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Dynamic Regular Expressions

2nd November 2005 | 0 Comments

Regular Expressions are cool. They’re basically a special type of search string used by UNIX and a variety of programming languages such as Perl, PHP and JavaScript. I mainly use them in JavaScript to find and replace all instances of a specific string in another string.

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