Parse href

[rob51383]

Hello,

I am looping through every <td> of a named table and retrieving the first element of each <td> and do something if the first element in the <td> is <a>.

For every <a> element the HREF value will be something like:
<a href="

http://www.website.com/page.asp?var1=x&date=11/02/2006&about5=othervars">

What I want to do with javascript is after detecting that the first element of the current <TD> is in fact an <a>, I want to get the value of "date" off the HREF string and comput the date range like so:

if date is between 1/2/2006 and 2/22/2006 {Do something}
elseif date is between 2/23/2006 and 6/21/2006 {Do Something}
else if date is between 6/21/2006 and 12/31/2006 {Do something}

Thanks for any help you can swing at me.

 

[tsuji]

Like this.
[tt]
//suppose obj is the anchor identified
var s=obj.href;
var cm=(/&date=\W*(.*?)\W*&/i).exec(s);
if (Date.parse(RegExp.$1)==Date) {
var dt=new Date(Date.parse(RegExp.$1));
var dt1=new Date(Date.parse("1/2/2006"));
var dt2=new Date(Date.parse("2/22/2006"));
var dt3=new Date(Date.parse("6/21/2006"));
var dt4=new Date(Date.parse("12/31/2006"));
if (dt<dt1) {
//do something
} else if (dt>=dt1 && dt<=dt2) {
//do something
} else if (dt>dt2 && dt<=dt3) {
//do something
} else if (dt>dt3 && dt<=dt4) {
//do something
} else if (dt>dt4) {
//do something
}
} else {
alert("the data is not a date")
//do something with it
}
[/tt]

 

[tsuji]

Amendment

I'd forgotten to key in the critical word. The corresponding line should be read like this.
[tt]
if (Date.parse(RegExp.$1)[blue]].constructor[/blue]==Date) {[/tt]

ps. Just for other reader's sake.

 

[tsuji]

A re-take for typos.
[tt] if (Date.parse(RegExp.$1)[blue].constructor[/blue]==Date) {[/tt]