Comments on: Cast to int issue

By: gtb

gtb — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:00:00 +0000

From the adobe manual: “The inclusion of a decimal point causes uint() and int() to return an integer, truncating the decimal and the characters following it.” (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=03_Language_and_Syntax_12.html)

I fixed this by type-casting as Number, not int (eg. Number(‘1.25′))

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:47:42 +0000

The difference in how the cast, int() and the ‘as’ operator work. ‘as’ assumes that the value is an instance of what it is being cast to, ie, that 57.83 is at least an int. If it isn’t an int, or a descendant of int, it will return null. In this case, 57.83 is a Number, which isn’t an int or a descendant of int, so ‘57.83 as int’ returns null because 57.83 isn’t an int.

On the other hand, the call to int() will explicitly try to convert the value to an int.

There’s a good discussion of the differences here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/996478/actionscript-is-there-ever-a-good-reason-to-use-as-casting

By: Cyianite

Cyianite — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:56:58 +0000

Any solution with this issue?

By: cyianite

cyianite — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:11:20 +0000

Its the same issue when you converting long-int , like 100000000000000 it will give you different after conversion

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:14:07 +0000

I had a similar problem with XML data loaded in and numbers vs strings:

var splashString:String = xml.year.value as String;

Is null / empty.
is okay because it contains non-integer characters.

Fix:
var splashString:String = xml.year.value.toString(); //grr