indexOf() has died on me!

[Pyrrhus]

I have a web site that has been working for years using the JS code in question. Suddenly it is malfunctioning and the problem seems to be that indexOf is returning values of -1 in place of the formerly valid values.

The actual code is:

var firstchar=decodedscorestring.indexOf("s0101");
var nextchar=decodedscorestring.indexOf("s0201");

Anyone have any ideas at all??

Thanks.

 

[theboyhope]

You've checked the value of your decodedscorestring, right?

 

[vbkris]

note:
indexOf is case sensitive...

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[cLFlaVA]

-1 is returned when the string paramater cannot be found. As theboyhope suggested, I would check the value of the string being tested and/or the string being passed to the function.

*cLFlaVA
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[Pyrrhus]

Thanks to the 3 of you for your suggestions. As usual it turned out to be something else. The string had been retrieved from a js cookie, and somehow I had created a bogus cookie which was returning the incorrect string.

Thanks again.