Is it possible to check if a complete string or part of it is in an array?

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July 3, 2009
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I had to check a text input from a user to se if is inside an array, the array contains single words with possible answers. What I need to know is; if somebody for example type the "sky is blue" and the array contains "blue", I want it to recognize it even is there's more words in the given string that are not in the array.

If is possible what is the sintax?

Other question I have is about case-sensitive, from my understanding arrays are not case-sensitive until we say so.

Thanks!

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Ned Murphy

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What you would probably want to do is break the user's input string into individual words using the split method, and then take the resulting array and for each word of that string use the indexOf method to see if it is in the other array you want to check against.

As far as I know, arrays have nothing to do with case. Strings do though.

nbautistaAuthor

Known Participant

Hi Ned,

How do you break the user's input into individual words?

//this is the array

var answerOne:Array = new Array("", "expand", "grow", "grew", "renovate", "renovated", "upgrade", "upgraded", "remodel", "remodeled", "invest", "invested", "investments", "invested");

//this checks in the array for the input
if (answerOne.indexOf(answ_input.text)>0){

}

if the user inputs "I upgraded it", it won't return true it will if user inputs "upgraded"

kglad

Community Expert

there's no need to split into an array:

//this is the array
var answerOne:Array = new Array("", "expand", "grow", "grew", "renovate", "renovated", "upgrade", "upgraded", "remodel", "remodeled", "invest", "invested", "investments", "invested");
answercorrectF(answerOne,answ_input.text); // this is how to call answercorrectF()
// nothing below needs to be changed
function answercorrectF(a:Array,s:String):Boolean{
for(var i:uint=0;i<a.length;i++){
if (s.indexOf(a)>=0){ // use || a.indexOf(answ_input.text)>0 if you want to check for either
return true;
}
}
return false;
}

kglad

Community Expert

you can use indexOf().

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