Parsing Values in a selected combo box

[DaveyCrockett]

Hello Everyone,

I have a tricky problem here. I am creating a page that dynamically creates 24 combo boxes with a different name for each (ie.. 11~100~10~10~2,12~200~21~50~2,etc...)

What that means is that I am creating a combo box for each item I want selected. I populate the first number from one table (11) then add the '~' to separate other values retrieved from another table. Below is the sample script.

<Select Name=&quot;cbo<%= rsMeals(&quot;MENUM&quot;) & rsMeals(&quot;MEItem&quot;) %>&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; ONCHANGE=&quot;HandleChange();&quot;>
	<% rsItems.MoveFirst
	While Not rsItems.EOF				Response.Write &quot;<option value=&quot; & rsItems(&quot;FDID&quot;)  & &quot;~&quot; & _
	rsItems(&quot;FDCalories&quot;) & &quot;~&quot; & rsItems(&quot;FDProteins&quot;) & &quot;~&quot; & _					rsItems(&quot;FDCarbs&quot;) & &quot;~&quot; & rsItems(&quot;FDFats&quot;) & &quot;>&quot; & rsItems(&quot;FDName&quot;) & _		&quot;</option>&quot;		
  rsItems.MoveNext
Wend
%>
</Select>

And it gives me html like this.

<Select Name=&quot;cbo11&quot; size=&quot;1&quot; ONCHANGE=&quot;HandleChange();&quot;>
<option value=70~0~0~0~0>Select An Item…</option>
<option value=15~220~25~18~7>Chocolate Bar</option>
</Select>

What I want to do is parse through in the &quot;HandleChange&quot; script to see:
1. Which combo box was selected?
2. What item in the combo box was selected (first set of digits to the left of the '~')
3. What is the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th numeric values in the &quot;value&quot; attribute of the combo box selected.

With this information, I want it to populate a table to the right of the combo box with these values parsed out.

Is this possible with Javascript? Or should I start learning asp.net? I think it might be able to, but am unsure.. any help would be appreciated.

Thank you all in advance.

 

[jsobo]

It is completely possible... You can do just about anything with client-side javascript... especially in IE...

Sorry I don't have time to help you with this but here is a great reference...

http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.3/reference/frames.html

Also if you are going to be doing this stuff cross-browser and not just for IE I highly suggest &quot;Dynamic HHTL The Definitive Reference by Danny Goodman&quot;

if not you should be able to find all the ie dom stuff you need from

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28001169

Good luck...

 

[DaveyCrockett]

I will look into that suggestion.

Ok. Maybe too much information.. How can I parse the '~' out of the combo.value field.

var ttlValue
var Part1;
var Part2;
var Part3;

ttlValue = parseFloat(document.formname.selectbox1.value);
Part1 = parse(ttlValue,'~')

Will that work??? how can you parse through the values? Sometimes the values are 1 digit, sometimes 2 and even sometimes 3 in length.

Thanks again

 

[vbkris]

why parse it first remove it...
ttlValue = document.formname.selectbox1.value.replace(&quot;~/g&quot;,&quot;&quot;
ttlValue=parseFloat(ttlValue)

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[clarkin]

What you have is a string of values delimited by the ~ char.
You can easily split it into an array of the values with (surprisingly) the split() method.

http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/ecmascript/quickref/string.html

var strValue = document.formname.selectbox1.value
var valuesArray = strValue.split("~")

You now have an array of strings, eg &quot;70&quot; &quot;0&quot; &quot;0&quot; &quot;0&quot; &quot;0&quot; -



Posting code? Wrap it with code tags: [ignore]

[/ignore][code]CodeHere

[ignore][/code][/ignore].