weird problem with variable

// index.html

<a href="test.html?menu=menu1">menu1</a>
<a href="test.html?menu=menu1_1">menu1_1</a>

// index.html

// test.html

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
<SCRIPT src="CSJSRequestObject.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
</head>

<body">
<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>

</script>
</body>
</html>

// test.html

y isn;t it working ?
if i do a check like :

if(x = "menu1")
{
alert("ok")
}

it shows its there
additional info about CSJSRequestObject.js can be found :
http://www.andrewu.co.uk/tools/request/

"ziemon" <news@ziemon.nl> writes:
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> <SCRIPT src="CSJSRequestObject.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>[/color]

You should put quotes around the type attibute value.
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> <body">[/color]

The quote is misplaced here.
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> <SCRIPT type=text/javascript>
> <!--[/color]

HTML comments are not needed in Javascript.
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> var x = Request.QueryString("menu")[/color]

Let's assume x now contains the string "menu1_1"
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> for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++)[/color]

Then "x.length" is 7, the length of the string "menu1_1". The value of
"x" is a string, not the array stored in the variable with the same
name as x's value.
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> {
> document.write(x[i].number + x[i].name + x[i].height + x[i].position +
> x[i].college + "<br>")[/color]

So this fails, since "x" has no property called "1" (or if it does, it
is a single character string which won't have properties called "number",
"name" etc.).

What you can do, is to change the call to Request.Querystring to

var x = window[Request.QueryString("menu")];

Then it lets "x" be the value of the global variable whose name is in
the querystring, which is what I assume you want.
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> y isn;t it working ?[/color]

Is it "y" or "x" that isn't working? [1]
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> if i do a check like :
>
> if(x = "menu1")[/color]

That is not a test, it is an assignment that assigns the string value
"menu1" to the variable "x". The result is converted to a boolean for
use in the "if", and it gives true (it is a non-empty string).

/L
--
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen - lrn@hotpop.com
Art D'HTML: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/randomArtSplit.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

"Lasse Reichstein Nielsen" <lrn@hotpop.com> wrote in message
news:znhgv0u7.fsf@hotpop.com...
<snip>[color=blue][color=green]
> > y isn;t it working ?[/color]
>
> Is it "y" or "x" that isn't working? [1][/color]
<snip>

:)

Were you planning a footnote suggesting that abbreviations [1] (even
when in common use in British, North American or Antipodean, etc. (or
any of their national/cultural sub groups) English) are inappropriate on
an international newsgroup where many of the regular contributors write
English as a second (or third+) language?

I loathe these "text message" abbreviations. They may be excused when
the input device is a telephone dialling pad but otherwise I take a
posters unwillingness to type in those extra letters as sufficient
reason not to bother answering.

[1] Not including abbreviations relating to the subject, such as "i18n"
for internationalisation, or acronyms.

Richard.

"Richard Cornford" <richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> writes:
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> "Lasse Reichstein Nielsen" <lrn@hotpop.com> wrote in message
> news:znhgv0u7.fsf@hotpop.com...
> <snip>[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > y isn;t it working ?[/color]
> >
> > Is it "y" or "x" that isn't working? [1][/color]
> <snip>
>
> :)
>
> Were you planning a footnote suggesting that abbreviations [1] (even
> when in common use in British, North American or Antipodean, etc. (or
> any of their national/cultural sub groups) English) are inappropriate on
> an international newsgroup where many of the regular contributors write
> English as a second (or third+) language?[/color]

That is exactly what I were, just in fewer words (since English is my
second language, I am not as fluent in it, as I am in my first
language).

I am quite capable of deciphering most single-letter abbreviations,
but it does take more time to comprehend, than the correct spelling
would. Mostly, it just annoys me to see the language mistreated like
that.
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> I loathe these "text message" abbreviations. They may be excused when
> the input device is a telephone dialling pad but otherwise I take a
> posters unwillingness to type in those extra letters as sufficient
> reason not to bother answering.[/color]

Hear, hear!
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> [1] Not including abbreviations relating to the subject, such as "i18n"
> for internationalisation, or acronyms.[/color]

I don't like l18n either. It attempts, too hard, to be "cute", and I
just find it plain annoying. It's only 20 letters. If that is too hard
for someone to type, they can make a macro. It doesn't help when it is
contagious (witness "l10n" - localization).
But why should abbreviations be exempt from Sturgeon's law: 90% of
everything is c2p.

No, I don't like recursive acronyms either. "GNU" was fun. The rest
are pale immitations.

/L
--
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen - lrn@hotpop.com
Art D'HTML: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/randomArtSplit.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

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