Character Escaping

[bgreenhouse]

Simple question:

I want to put a degree sign in a variable that will be assigned to a variable text field. I know the ascii escape code (Not in front of me now, let's say it's (escape sequence here - Tek-Tips keeps processing it for me)).

I set the variable like as an array in the beginning:

quiz[x][3] = "Must use 150 (escape sequence) F water"

Then later I set the variable that is the variable text field equal to that array element:

varfortext = quiz[x][3]

I've tried all variations of unescape and everything, but I can't get it to display anything but the actual escape sequence (ampersand-numbersign-whatever-the-code-is-plus-a-semi-colon)...

Any suggestions?

Ben

 

[DianaCL]

ok, maybe i get it wrong but i tried it like this :

vartxt="£=(alt+157)  =(alt+155)";
_root.txttxt=vartxt;

and it works. (by the way,

txttxt

is the name of the variable in the text field, not the name of the textfield) Diana.

 

[bgreenhouse]

Hi Diana

Good point about the variable in the text field as opposed to the name of the textfield. I think I'm missing somehting obvious, but I'm not sure what your script shows me...has tek-tips processed some of your character codes? What are you putting in vartxt? Is it (imagine the concatenated string here... &+#+157; or are you actually putting alt+157?

Sorry for missing the obvious here...

Ben

 

[bgreenhouse]

Got it...

quiz[x][1] = "You must wash your hands at 150" + unescape("\u00b0") + " F."

I was trying to use ASCII escape codes, not Unicode.

B