Question

I have the following code to retrieve the result.

var _label:Number = (data.ask - data.bid) * 10000;
this.text = String(_label.toFixed(0));

I would like to know what to add in order to retrieve the first 2 numbers from the left only for the results. e.g.,:

1234756.21354 > 12

75484.014 > 75

Answer 1

You can use .substr(), .slice() or .substring() methods:

this.text = String(_label.toFixed(0)).substr(0,2);
//this.text = String(_label.toFixed(0)).slice(0,2);
//this.text = String(_label.toFixed(0)).substring(0,2);

For adding .(dot) between, try this:

var numstr:String = String(_label.toFixed(0)).substr(0,2);
this.text = Number(numstr)/10 + "";