arguments object

Availability

Flash Player 5; property added in Flash Player 6.

Description

The arguments object is an array that contains the values that were passed as parameters to any function. Each time a function is called in ActionScript, an arguments object is automatically created for that function. A local variable, arguments, is also created and lets you refer to the arguments object.

Property summary for the arguments object

Property	Description
arguments.callee	A reference to the function being called.
arguments.caller	A reference to the calling function.
arguments.length	The number of parameters passed to a function.

Comments

No screen name said on Oct 21, 2004 at 2:28 PM :

Example code for accessing arguments can be found in
arguments.length

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