Remove spaces from a variable

Question

I have a variable called 'enteredname':-
var enteredname:String;
When the user enters some text into my text input 'nameentry' and clicks a button the text entered is saved into this variable:-
enteredname = nameentry.text;
This variable is then sent to a server and set as the name of the item the user has added via http request however I want to add in another string variable 'enteredimagename' which will store the same text but will have any spaces removed or any characters that would not be appropriate to an image/jpeg file.
The idea of this is that the user adds a name for an item their adding and the same name gets applied both as the items title and as the items image filename (with all the spaces etc removed) as all of the images in my app are stored on a server and are dynamic so the click would look something like:-
enteredname = nameentry.text;
enteredimagename = nameentry.text (with some code to remove the spaces for this string or something)
Can anyone help me out with this?

Answer 1

Hi use this function pass the name or any string that you want to remove strings..the function will return you the concatenated string without spaces.
private function stripSpaces():String
    var strippedSpaces:String = StringUtil.trim(name);
    var strArray:Array = strippedSpaces.split(" ");
    var concatString:String = "";
    for(var i:int=0;i<strArray.length;i++)
     if(strArray[i] != " ")
      concatString += strArray[i];
    return concatString;   
This function removes all spaces, also the spaces between words and at the beginning and end as well.
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Thanks,
Bhasker Chari