typecasting in as3?

[cbthom]

I know how to do this in Java, but am new to AS3. How can I typecast a character to a number? Thanks for your help.

PS: this is what I'm doing:

[Damon Edwards]

using the 'as' operator, however, I don't believe you can typecast a string as a number, could be wrong though.

[Newsgroup_User]

It think something like this

var myString:String = "12";
var myNumber:Number = Number(myString);

for the other way around you could use String(myNumber) to convert it to
a string.

tamagorci

cbthom wrote:
> I know how to do this in Java, but am new to AS3. How can I typecast a character to a number? Thanks for your help.
>

[Jamesabth]

You can convert a string to an integer with parseInt(myChar); as long as the string containes a number. Also, you can use parseFloat(myChar); to convert to a floating-point (decimal) number. However, int(myChar); should also work, but only because Flash has to guess what you are trying to do so this is not recommended.