null constant

A special value that can be assigned to variables or returned by a function if no data was provided. You can use null to represent values that are missing or that do not have a defined data type.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 5

Example

The following example checks the first six values of an indexed array and outputs a message if no value is set (if the value == null):

var testArray:Array = new Array();
testArray[0] = "fee";
testArray[1] = "fi";
testArray[4] = "foo";

for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
 if (testArray[i] == null) {
 trace("testArray[" + i + "] == null");
 }
}

The output is the following:

testArray[2] == null
testArray[3] == null
testArray[5] == null