How can I convert a string to a char array in ActionScript 3?

Question

How do you convert a string into a char array in ActionScript 3.0?

I tried the below code but I get an error:

var temp:ByteArray =  new ByteArray();
temp = input.toCharArray();

From the error, I understand that the toCharArray() function cannot be applied to a string (i.e in my case - input). Please help me out. I am a beginner.

Answer 1

I am not sure if this helps your purpose but you can use String#split():

If you use an empty string ("") as a delimiter, each character in the string is placed as an element in the array.

var array:Array = "split".split("");

Now you can get individual elements using index

array[0] == 's' ; array[1] == 'p' ....

Answer 2

Depending on what you need to do with it, the individual characters can also be accessed with string.charAt(index), without splitting them into an array.