Actionscript: Get Substring

The sample code below gets the substring of any given string.

var s:String = "abc-def";

var controlno1:int;
var controlno2:int;

controlno1 = s.substring(0, s.indexOf('-'));
//result = "abc"

controlno2 = s.substring(s.indexOf('-')+1, s.length);
// result = "def"

s.substring(beginindex,endindex)
Get the substring based on a given string. 0 being the first position.


s.indexOf(string)
Get the position of a character/string on a given string. Result = -1 if the string to find is not found.