Question

Is there a way I can split by more than one character? I do not mean a combination of characters, but an array of specific choices. For example:

s = "john is tall,sue is small";
s.split(" ");
trace(s);

The output in this circumstance would be:

'john' 'is' 'tall,sue' 'is' 'small'

However, what if I wanted to edit out the comma as well such that the output was:

'john' 'is' 'tall' 'sue' 'is' 'small'

How can I do this? I’m pretty sure it’s done with regex, but I’m a little lost.
Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

AS3’s split() method accepts a regular-expression as input, so you should be able to use the following:

var str:String = "john is tall,sue is small";
var re:RegExp = /[, ]/;
var results:Array = str.split(re);