Substrings

This gets the fifth character out of myName. The first number is the beginning, the second is the end. It is sort of like selecting text from a start point to an end point.

myName.substring(4, 5)

Local to Global

Here's how to take nested x and y and convert them to global x and y:

//these nested coordinates...
var myPoint:Object = {x:theClip.nestedclip._x, y:theClip.nestedclip._y};
theClip.nestedclip.localToGlobal(myPoint);
//
//are now root coordinates...
trace(myPoint.x)
trace(myPoint.y)