Number.toString()

Availability

Flash Player 5; behavior changed in Flash Player 7.

Usage

myNumber.toString(radix)

Parameters

radix Specifies the numeric base (from 2 to 36) to use for the number-to-string conversion. If you do not specify the radix parameter, the default value is 10.

Returns

A string.

Description

Method; returns the string representation of the specified Number object (myNumber).

If myNumber is undefined, the return value is as follows:

• In files published for Flash Player 6 or earlier, the result is 0.
• In files published for Flash Player 7 or later, the result is NaN.

Example

The following example uses 2 and 8 for the radix parameter and returns a string that contains the corresponding representation of the number 9.

myNumber = new Number (9);
trace(myNumber.toString(2)); / 1001
trace(myNumber.toString(8)); / 11

See also

NaN