Array.join()
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SWiSH Player Support
SWF5 or later - Supported Internally

Syntax
arrayName.join({sep});

Arguments
sep: An optional character or string to be used as the separator for the string that returns the new array elements. Without this optional argument, a comma is used by default.

Returns
Nothing.

Description
Method; takes the individual elements of an array and converts them to strings. They are joined together by the character or string specified by the sep argument and returns a string containing the joined elements.

Samples
onLoad() {
    days = new Array("Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday");
    trace(days.join());
}

// displays "Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday" in the debug window


onLoad() {
    days = new Array("Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday");
    trace(days.join(":"));
}

// displays "Monday:Tuesday:Wednesday" in the debug window


onLoad() {
    pets = new Array("fluffy","spot","Mr.Kitty");
    trace(pets.join(" and "));
}

// displays "fluffy and spot and Mr.Kitty" in the debug window