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ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference > ActionScript classes > Number > toString (Number.toString method)

toString (Number.toString method)

Returns the string representation of the specified Number object (myNumber). If the value of the Number object is a decimal number without a leading zero (such as .4), Number.toString() adds a leading zero (0.4).

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 5

Parameters

radix:Number - Specifies the numeric base (from 2 to 36) to use for the number-to-string conversion. If you do not specify the radix parameter, the default value is 10.

Returns

String - A string.

Example

The following example uses 2 and 8 for the radix parameter and returns a string that contains the corresponding representation of the number 9:

var myNumber:Number = new Number(9);
trace(myNumber.toString(2)); // output: 1001
trace(myNumber.toString(8)); // output: 11

The following example results in a hexadecimal value.

var r:Number = new Number(250);
var g:Number = new Number(128);
var b:Number = new Number(114);
var rgb:String = "0x"+ r.toString(16)+g.toString(16)+b.toString(16);
trace(rgb); 
// output: rgb:0xFA8072 (Hexadecimal equivalent of the color 'salmon')

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