My input AS is right but Flash says it's wrong

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March 20, 2007
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I've done a simple check input coding which should check for the inputed number of 0.09952. Problem is Flash says that the correctly inputed number is incorrect. Can anyone help???

Check out my Flash8 file here:

http://home.exetel.com.au/twistedpancreas/images/calculation.fla

Everything seems to be in order. The only thing i have changed is that my correct number used to be 0.09954, but i changed it to 0.09952. Now only the number 0.09954 will work if var KHPanswer:Number = 0.09954;

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

PB

ActionScript

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kglad

Community Expert

you're welcome.

T

twistedpancreasAuthor

Inspiring

ah ok,

thx kglad,

i'll try to be a bit more careful next time with my coding

kglad

Community Expert

the best way to check for equality of numbers, if to check if their diffence is zero (after converting any strings to numbers). you can also compare strings as you've done in your last message.

T

twistedpancreasAuthor

Inspiring

ok so i've changed it to

var KHPanswer = Number("0.09952");

and that seems to work, so does that mean I need to be ultra careful with how I define numbers in text fields? Because that seemed awefully touchy (ie not accepting 0.09952 but accepting 0.09954!!!)

T

twistedpancreasAuthor

Inspiring

thanks kglad,

so do i write that out as

if (Number(KHP) == KHPanswer)

or

if (Number(KHP.text) == KHPanswer)

because both of those still aren't working with 0.09952

kglad

Community Expert

the text property of a textfield is always a string. if you want to compare that string to a number, convert it (using the Number() function is usually adequate).

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