How search text in current frame of external swf?

Hello Everyone
I am loading an external swf using loader.
How do search and highlight the text in the current frame only?
Is there a frame class which I could use?
Thanks

This is not likely to be possible in the general case, depending on what you mean by "searching text"
For instance, a Word doc might have the text "Hello, world!" when viewed in Word, but that doesn't mean that the sequence of characters 'H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', etc., exists in the file. There might be one letter, then some binary data indicating that the next letter is some other font or color, then one more letter, then more binary data, etc.
Conversely, there could be textual metadata in a "binary" file that a person reading the file in the appropriate viewer would never see. Unless you know the details of the format you're reading, you won't be able to distinguish that from "real text".
And what do you mean "strings" is not efficient? Have you tried it? Does it do what you want? Did you measure and determine that it does not meet your well-defined performance requirements? It's unlikely you'll be able to write code that does the same thing as "strings" but more "efficiently."
The first step is to put more realistic boundaries on your requirements and define them more precisely. "Extract text from any binary file," is not a valid, meaningful, or reasonable requirement.
EDIT: I may have misunderstood your requirements. I thought you wanted to "extract all text" from binary files. If that's not what you meant, and you're looking more to replicate grep, then follow Joachim's advice.
Edited by: jverd on Mar 29, 2010 1:33 PM

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