Nutty question 2004-02-25 - By Bill Sanders
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Simon,
Let me enlist you in an effort to bring Regular Expressions to Flash.
Rather than having to fish through a loop to find a match, using
string.match(RegExp), you could do it with a single simple function
that is ECMA-262 (See http://CMA-262.ora-code.com) ECMAScript v. 4 compatible.
MM does not want to add RegExp at this time for a very good reason--it
would add 20k to the player size thereby discouraging the current high
number of player downloads -- especially from the huge 56k phone modem
users. However, as we more inexorably toward broadband, the 20k becomes
less and less of an issue.
Anyway, I along with other programmers are hoping to get this issue on
the MM radar. As FCS handles more clients and more sophisticated
functions, the incredibly powerful Regular Expressions would add a lot
to very kind of search you're talking about.
Perl programmers cannot imagine working without RegExps. (BTW, I'm not a
Perl programmer, much preferring PHP, which does include regular
expressions with preg_match() )
Cheers,
Bill
On Wednesday, February 25, 2004, at 01:40 AM, Simon Lord wrote:
> I hope this doesn't sound silly but...
>
> Rather than cycle through all the names in the list of people in a
> room, if I know the username, can I just do something direct like the
> following (where support *is* the name of the user):
>
> support.call()
>
> ... rather than loop through them all and do:
>
> application.clients[i].call()
>
> ... I haven't tried it yet, really late and I don't like to poke at the
> server when the eyeballs are watery with sleepiness. :)
>
> Sincerely,
> Simon
>
>
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