Name

String.fromCharCode( ) Class Method — generate a string from one or more code points

Availability

Flash 5

Synopsis

String.fromCharCode(code_ point1, code_ point2,...code_ pointn)

Arguments

code_ point1,...code_ pointn

A series of one or more decimal integers corresponding to Latin 1 or Shift-JIS character code points, as shown in Appendix B.

Returns

A string formed by concatenating the characters represented by the specified code points.

Description

The fromCharCode( ) class method produces a character or series of characters from character code points as described in Chapter 4.

Example

// Makes a copyright symbol, followed by the year (2001)
copyNotice = String.fromCharCode(169) + " 2001";

See Also

String.charCodeAt( ); Appendix B, Section 4.6.9.1 in Chapter 4

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