Arraying a String

dimo414 · February 12th, 2006, 07:45 PM

In FireFox, I am able to call individual characters from a string by referencing it as an array.
For instance:

Code:

var test = "testing";
document.write(test[2]);

would output 's'

However in IE6 it returns 'undefined'. Is my code flawed, or is there a more universal way to call an individual digit of a string?

dimo414 · February 12th, 2006, 09:43 PM

AH HA! Nevermind, I found the solution (Looked in [u]Professional JavaScript for Web Developers</u>)

I changed all refrences of arrays to the method charAt(number) and that works perfectly in both IE and Firefox.

Thanks Nick!

crmpicco · February 13th, 2006, 08:10 AM

yeah, charAt would seem correct. Surprised test[2] worked, was it FF1.5?

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dimo414 · February 14th, 2006, 12:08 AM

Yes, it's the most recent version of Firefox. I originaly used test[2] because a friend, who knows Java and JavaScript, said that was how to call a single charecter.