AS3 help?

I have XML file with data and I am loading this to text filed.
How can check the length of values (like value1, value2…)? And
The text field has to accept only 20 chars from each value. If it’s more than 20 chars then it should remove (delete) 21, 22 …. chars.
XML code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<data>
<Header1>
<option>
<value1> Adobe Photoshop</value1>
<value2> Adobe Flash Professional </value2>
<value3> Adobe Acrobat Professional </value3>
<value4> Adobe Premiere Pro </value1>
</option>
</Header1>
</data>
Please help me!
Thanks
jafy

Look at the String class and the properties and methods that support it. You can use the length property (String.length) to determine how many characters are in the String. And you can use the slice() or substr() method to capture a particular section of the String for appending to the TextField.

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