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ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 DEVELOPER’S GUIDE
Working with strings
Using String methods to normalize image titles
Flash Player 9 and later, Adobe AIR 1.0 and later
One of the design decisions for this application is that all the image titles are displayed using a standard format, with
the first letter of each word capitalized (except for a few words that are commonly not capitalized in English titles).
Rather than assume that the text file contains properly formatted titles, the application formats the titles while they’re
being extracted from the text file.
In the previous code listing, as part of extracting individual image metadata values, the following line of code is used:
imageInfo.title = normalizeTitle(imageProperties[1]);
In that code, the image’s title from the text file is passed through the normalizeTitle() method before it is stored in
the ImageInfo object:
private function normalizeTitle(title:String):String
{
var words:Array = title.split(" ");
var len:uint = words.length;
for (var i:uint; i < len; i++)
{
words[i] = capitalizeFirstLetter(words[i]);
}
}
return words.join(" ");
This method uses the split() method to divide the title into individual words (separated by the space character),
passes each word through the capitalizeFirstLetter() method, and then uses the Array class’s join() method
to combine the words back into a single string again.
As its name suggests, the capitalizeFirstLetter() method actually does the work of capitalizing the first letter of
each word:
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