@ Symbol

[Ward Bell]

I've looked carefully in different spots -- searching for the reason/
meaning of the @ symbol in Flex code. I found one place that claims
to have an answer but I have to join their group at a monthly fee to
see it. It isn't worth that, but I am curious.

[mattreyuk]

The @ is used to access an attribute in an XML structure - it's part
of E4X (ECMAScript for XML). For example, if I had an XML document
that contained <product name="beer"> then product.@name would give me
beer.

This is covered in lesson 6 of the book.

[Ward Bell]

Thanks, Matt! I missed the reference both in Chapter 6 and the index
("attribute operator (@)) when I scanned the chapter.

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