TextSnapshot.findText()

Availability

Authoring: Flash MX 2004.

Playback: SWF files published for Flash Player 6 or later, playing in Flash Player 7 or later.

Usage

my_snap.findText( startIndex, textToFind, caseSensitive )

Parameters

startIndex An integer specifying the starting point in my_snap to search for the specified text.

textToFind A string specifying the text to search for. If you specify a string literal instead of a variable of type String, enclose the string in quotation marks.

caseSensitive A Boolean value specifying whether the text in my_snap must match the case of the string in textToFind.

Returns

The zero-based index position of the first occurrence of the specified text, or -1.

Description

Method; searches the specified TextSnapshot object and returns the position of the first occurrence of textToFind found at or after startIndex. If textToFind is not found, the method returns -1.

See also

TextSnapshot.getText()