convert an integer to a string as3

Question

How do I convert an integer to a string value? This must be easy. \"Ya guys in SO are da best at explaining.\" I\'m still working on these dumb counters.

Answer 1

I use 5 + "", any time you add "" (no character) , it converts anything to a string and it's easy to remember.

Answer 2

myInt.toString();

Answer 3

I was under the impression AS3 has a String() method which will explicitly coerce a variable of the type number into a String. Integers can be converted to numbers easily enough, and i'm pretty sure it would be done implicitly in this case.

text = String(number);

Answer 4

very simple ==>

var myint:int = 500;
var myintToString:String = myint+"";

Answer 5

COUNTER "DYNAMIC TEXT" with zero values solution
I'm posting on behalf of Ed, a human that helped me over the phone. It was a problem with the string arguments and the syntax in mytext.

//CA, NC, LONDON, ED "increments"
var timer:Timer = new Timer(10);  
var count:int = 0; //start at -1 if you want the first decimal to be 0  
var fcount:int = 0; 

timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, incrementCounter);  
timer.start();  

function incrementCounter(event:TimerEvent) {  
  count++;  
  fcount=int(count*count/10000);//starts out slow... then speeds up 
  mytext.text = formatCount(fcount);
}

function formatCount(i:int):String { 
     var fraction:int = i % 100; 
     var whole:int = i / 100; 

    return ("0000000" + whole).substr(-7, 7) + "." + (fraction < 10 ? "0" + fraction : fraction); 
}