Substring in flex3

Question

I want to use substring in flex side like eg:- m having sm no like 0001A,0287393A,22839A,etc i need to use substring for numeric only and chop character value. Or else if you have sm other idea beside using substring can share much appreciated

Answer 1

I think I understand the question. You want to convert the numeric part of the string to a Number, and drop the characters. If so, you're in luck:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/package.html#parseInt()

parseInt('0001a') should return Number(1).