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AS3 - Check to see if a string is true /false

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When receiving data that contains booleans from JSON, MXML and perhaps even XML, Flash thinks the boolean is a string. If you check to see if the boolean is true, it will always be true unless the value you are checking is null or blank. I created a function that checks to see if a string is true/false.

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  1. //Recieves a string, checks to see if it is true/false, passes boolean back
  2. function checkBoolean(val:String):Boolean {
  3. 	if (val.toLowerCase() == "true") { 
  4. 		return true; 
  5. 	} else { 
  6. 		return false; 
  7. 	}
  8. }

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