This demonstrates a faster way to translate letters into numbers. Instead of comparing them to each item of a list individually, we check which of five lists they're in, tally the results, and presto! The most obvious uses are secret codes, passwords, and that kind of thing, but I'm sure there are more. You are, of course, more than welcome to download this and use scripts in your own project. The scripts on the stage are used for setting up the lists, these wouldn’t need to be in your final project. One complication: This technique is case-sensitive when used in offline or Java, but not in Flash. Also Flash seems be much better at this kind of thing in general, so even the slow way is pretty fast and you may not see much difference.
