redirection a page to a url defines as variable?

[dbartlett41]

i am trying to use the following code but it doesent seem like i can place a variable in side it to redirect to a url that is a variable any idea why it doesent work

window.setTimeout('window.location=go; ',500);

where go is normally "

http://somesite.com"

any ideas, thanks again dave

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Try:

window.setTimeout('window.location=' + go', 500);

Dan



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[dbartlett41]

nope didn't work and i think you were missing a quote there?
i tried:
window.setTimeout('window.location=' + go', 500);
window.setTimeout('window.location="+ go", 500);
window.setTimeout('window.location="+ go"', 500);

what is the difference between single quote and double quote?
what is the format of the expression it can handel i cant find a sensable definition on it.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Sorry - I left an extra quote in. Remove the quote after "go".

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[tsuji]

Try this?
[tt] window.setTimeout('window.location="'+ go + '"', 500);[/tt]

 

[dbartlett41]

ok i tried this
but it didn't work
var go = "

http://www.google.com"

window.setTimeout('window.location=' + go, 2000)


i tried this also and it did work except it doesent selay the redirect for 2 seconds like i wanted any idea why??

var go = "

http://www.google.com"

window.setTimeout(window.location="

http://"

+ go, 2000)

 

[dbartlett41]

i got it to work by your advice tsuji but whats with all the extra quotes? is there a certain pattern ? whats the defining difference between double and single quotes???

 

[tsuji]

There is no difference with quote/apos, just for satisfying the nesting. As to why the extras, the reasoning is this: setTimeout 1st argument is going to be "evaluated/compiled"---the commonly conceived wicked eval()---at the time it will run. Then it should receive a string of the form we usually see: window.location="

http://www.google.com".

It won't be right normally if it receives window.location=

http://www.google.com.

That's how to memorize it, as far as I am concerned.