Comments on: Flex doesn’t have a String#replaceAll()?

By: coder

coder — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:10:10 +0000

thanks

By: Aruna

Aruna — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:19:27 +0000

Really nice!!

By: Kishore

Kishore — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:30:25 +0000

Wonderful

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:19:38 +0000

All I want is to replace all occurences of the letter “A” in a string. And I just can’t figure it out.
Regex makes my head spin and I don’t even know where to begin bashing that as a solution. It just doesn’t work, no clue why.

Colin is right to find it absurd that there is no standard “replace all” function.

By: Garry

Garry — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:04:51 +0000

I think the point the guy was making is that it would be nice if flex provided an alternative method to regular expressions which not everybody enjoys using, as most other languages do. You don’t have to jump down his throat because you disagree with that point of view.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:00:44 +0000

Flex sucks!!!

By: Lala

Lala — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:41:35 +0000

thanks man. helped me!

By: Lewis

Lewis — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:10:00 +0000

How do I do a global replace when the regexp is unknown until runtime? ie

s = s.replace(“\$\{” + name + “\}”,value)

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:27:42 +0000

@Chris,

Its plain and obvious in the docs (as of Flex 3.3/), I must have been looking at the 3.0 documents last June and July(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flex#Release_history).

It is definitely a one-liner to use a global regex, but its not intuitively obvious especially coming from other frameworks

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/String.html#replace()

I still would contend that on a class as crucial as String, it should have a replaceAll(x,y) using str.replace(/test/g, “WOW”); can get the Job done, but I think we can still do better.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:21:05 +0000

And why don’t you just use the String.replace method correctly?

str:String = “test xxx “test” yyy”;
str.replace(/test/g, “WOW”);

// str is now “WOW xxx “WOW” yyy”

Before you are shocked the next time and blame the framework learn how to use it correctly.
People here will read your post and then think bad about the flex framework. But the truth is, that is has a very powerfull replace method.