Javascript formatting text string help

rickpill · Sep 15, 2003

Hi,

I have an ASP application and I need some help in formatting a Javascript client side text string. I have the following 2 text fields passed from my asp application:

FIELD 1 Contains key word descriptions as follows:

*SALE*All participants in Sale#*COUNTRY*who reside in# etc.

FIELD 2 Contains user input:

SALE NY7698 COUNTRY US CA

Expected result:

All participants in Sale NY7698 who reside in US CA.

Thank you,

Rick

GUJUm0deL · Sep 15, 2003

rickpill, can't you use a document.write() syntax to format the text??
EX: document.write(FIELD1 + FIELD2)

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rickpill · Sep 15, 2003

Yes, I could use document.write, but I need to substitute the user's input with text field 1 first. Text field 1 contains all possible key words, Text field 2 (user's input) does not.

Thanks,

Rick

vbkris · Sep 15, 2003

are you trying to match words here?

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Lrnmore · Sep 15, 2003

Using split to create an array
build your sub strings then replace??...

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script language="JavaScript">
var stra = new Array();
function sub_strg() {
d = document.test;
stra = d.rvals.value.split(" &quot

;
str_sale = " " +stra[1]+ " ";
str_country = " " + stra[3] + " " + stra[4] + " ";
alert(str_sale);
alert(str_country);
strb = d.nwvalue.value;
strc = strb.replace(/\*SALE\*/,"&quot

;
strc = strc.replace(/\#\*COUNTRY\*/,str_sale);
strc = strc.replace(/\# etc/,str_country);
d.nwvalue.value = strc;
}
</script>

</head>
<body>
<h2>After this that</h2><form name="test">
Start Values:<br>
<input type="text" name="rvals" size="35"
value="SALE NY7698 COUNTRY US CA">
<br><br>New String:<br>
<input type="text" name="nwvalue" size="50"
value="*SALE*All participants in Sale#*COUNTRY*who
reside in# etc.">
<a href="javascript:sub_strg()">Split, Replace Test</a>
</body>
</html>

2b||!2b

rickpill · Sep 15, 2003

rickpill · Sep 15, 2003

Thanks, I'll give it a shot!

Rick

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