"any" function?

[prut97]

I need something that defines "anything" so i can make like

if(var1 == "example"+ANY){
BLAH
}

So if it was "example4424" it would work or even "examplefas1233234sffs".

Understand what i mean?

thank you! :D

[BillysProgrammer]

var i=Math.ceil(Math.random()*500);
if(testText == returnText+i) {
     //actions
}

That a example, but i could be anything.

[Kenney]

Flash doesn't have wildcards so it's not easily possible.

[BillysProgrammer]

Then I didnt understand what he meant :P

[x33905]

I'm sure there's probably a better way and this is a bit clunky, but its the only thing that comes to mind.

var testWord1:String = "Test";
var testWord2:String = "TistTest";
var sameWord:Boolean = false;

for(var i:int = 0; i<testWord1.length; i++)
{
	if(testWord1.charAt(i)!=testWord2.charAt(i))
	{
		sameWord = false;
		break;
	}
	else
	{
		sameWord = true;
	}
}
if(sameWord == true)
	//Your actions here

[Nano256]

You could truncate everything after example by doing something like this:

var blah:String = "example12345FUCK YOU!!!! TEST SHIT";
trace(blah.substr(0,7));
//traces 'example'

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS2LCR/Flash _10.0/help.html?content=00001557.html

[x33905]

Yeah, definitely a better way.

var test1:String = "test";
var test2:String = "test2";

if(test2.substr(0, test1.length) == test1)
	//Your code here