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String Methods and Regular Expressions

 

package{
  import flash.display.Sprite;
  
  public class Main extends Sprite{
    public function Main(){

        var reCase:RegExp = new RegExp("(\\w)+", "g");
        var sVal = new String("abc def ghi");
        var aMatches:Array = sVal.match(reCase);
        trace(aMatches.toString());

    }
  }
}








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