November 16th, 2008 | Author: David
In the process of building my own Flex-based chat application, I’m creating tidbits of code for testing purposes. In this particular case, I wanted a small app to test regex (regular expression) capabilities. There are numerous online regex search applications, yet they’re mostly written for PHP and Perl and I wasn’t quite sure if Flash handled them the same way.
This small app can be used online to test Flash’s regex search capabilities. I’ll likely post a similar article on the replace function, as it’s equally handy in my own developments.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" width="100%" height="100%" creationComplete="textSearch()" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html"> <mx:Style> TextArea { cornerRadius: 5; } Application { backgroundColor: #FFFFFF; } </mx:Style> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ public function textSearch():void { searchResult.text = textToSearch.text.search(searchPattern.text).toString(); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:Form x="0" y="0" width="100%" height="100%"> <mx:FormHeading label="Flex Regex Search"/> <mx:FormItem label="Text to search"> <mx:TextArea id="textToSearch" text="Hello world!" change="textSearch()"/> </mx:FormItem> <mx:FormItem label="Search pattern"> <mx:TextArea id="searchPattern" text="world!" change="textSearch()"/> </mx:FormItem> <mx:FormItem label="Search result"> <mx:Text id="searchResult" text="Text"/> </mx:FormItem> </mx:Form> </mx:Application> |
Example: dm_regex_search.swf
Flex Project: dm_regex_search.zip
Posted in Examples | Tags: expression, level:beginner, regex, regex search, regular, regular expression, search