Using only part of a variable value

Question

I have a variable in my Flash that relates to a date. The
variable values are always in the form of mmyy. Therefore a value
of 0407 refers to April 2007, a value of 0505 refers to May 2005,
and so on.
I'm trying to figure out how to take the variable value and
use only the first two digits to create a new variable with the
value of the corresponding month.
So for example, say the original variable is:
issueDate = 0407
I would like to find a way to have actionscript take the
first two digits in the value (04) and create a new variable
(issueMonth) with the value of the corresponding month (April). So
the final result would be:
issueMonth = "April"
That way, if the value of the issueDate variable was 0405,
0410, or 0420, the value of the new issueMonth variable would
always just be April.
The whole point of this is so that I can take that original
variable and create dynamic text like this:
confirmation.text = "Thank you for reading our" + issueMonth +
"issue.";
Any help would really be appreciated.

Answer 1

If it's a string, then first you should look at the String
class in Help.
There you'll find that the slice method should do just what
you need:
var p = "0406";
trace(p.slice(0,2));
04
trace(p.slice(2,4));
06
You can then use parseInt to turn those into numbers. And use
the month
number as an index into a months array:
var p = "0406";
var mos =
["January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October", "November","December"];
var monthIndex = parseInt(p.slice(0,2)) - 1;
trace(mos[monthIndex]);
April
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