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			</script><div class="MainContent"><br><p>The flash.utils package contains utility classes, such as data structures like ByteArray.</p><br><hr><a name="methodSummary"></a><div class="summaryTableTitle">Functions</div><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="summaryTable"><tr><th>&nbsp;</th><th width="30%">Function</th><th width="70%">Description</th></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="package.html#clearInterval()">clearInterval</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">Cancels a specified setInterval() call.</td></tr><tr class="prow0"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="package.html#clearTimeout()">clearTimeout</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">Cancels a specified setTimeout() call.</td></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="package.html#describeType()">describeType</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">Produces an XML object that describes the ActionScript object named as the parameter of 
  the method.</td></tr><tr class="prow0"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="package.html#escapeMultiByte()">escapeMultiByte</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">Returns an escaped copy of the input string encoded as either UTF-8 or system code page, depending on the value of System.useCodePage.</td></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="package.html#getDefinitionByName()">getDefinitionByName</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">Returns a reference to the class object of the class specified by the name parameter.</td></tr><tr class="prow0"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="package.html#getQualifiedClassName()">getQualifiedClassName</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">Returns the fully qualified class name of an object.</td></tr><tr class="prow1"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="package.html#getQualifiedSuperclassName()">getQualifiedSuperclassName</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">Returns the fully qualified class name of the base class of the object specified by the value 
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 (===) for key comparison.</td></tr><tr class="prow0"><td class="summaryTablePaddingCol">&nbsp;</td><td class="summaryTableSecondCol"><a href="Endian.html">Endian</a></td><td class="summaryTableLastCol">The Endian class contains values that denote the byte order used to represent multibyte 
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