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  Comparison: Remove Duplicate Chars from a String Via Array and RegExp

  23.04.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  In the previous article, Remove Duplicate Chars from a String, I posted a way to remove duplicates characters from a string and make it of unique chars. So to make myself clear I’ll give the following example:
  Source string: “aabbccaaddee”
  Should be: “abcde”
  (note the underlined characters).
  In my previous article TLP has commented and created a better method. […]

  Popularity: 50%

• ActionScript, How to, Testing

  Remove Duplicate Chars from a String

  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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• ActionScript, Bugs

  toString() vs xmlToString()

  29.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I don’t know if you got in trouble when working with xmls but recently I found a bug (or a feature). Some differences when using toString() and/or xmlToString().
  Take a look a the following code:

  public var test1:XML = new XML("
  <permissions></permissions>
  ");
  public var test2:XML =
  <permissions></permissions>;
   
  public var test3:XML = new XML("
  <permissions>
  <test1>test</test1>
  </permissions>");
  public var test4:XML =
  <permissions>
  […]

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