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  How To Escape All Regexp Special Chars

  Andrei Ionescu | 07.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is a very helpful piece of code. Function to escape all regular expression special chars. I came to this string having this order of characters by trial and error. So now you can use it easily by copy and paste.
  What is important to know that MXML and Actionscript compiler do automatically escapes backslashes (”\”) [...]

• ActionScript, How to, Testing

  Remove Duplicate Chars from a String

  Andrei Ionescu | 11.03.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  This post is about how to remove duplicate characters from a string. And what I mean is that I want to make every char unique.
  Ex: “aabbbcccaadddee” will become “abcde“.
  In “short words” the following steps are taken:

  Split the string to an array (source array)
  Create a second empty array which will retain the unique values
  Sort the [...]

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• Virgil Cristea: Int cannot store that value I needed. I do not think it is a floating point error as in debug I see...
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• Andrei Ionescu: Thanks JohnG! I’ve modified the code also.