compare values in multiple text boxes

[nidsonline]

I've a page where I'm calling record from Database. Each record has an
ID and a text box displayed on the page. When the user fills in the
values of a text box, depending on the values of the text box i've to
do some further work. For eg. I've to add two records if the textbox
value of 2 records is same.

I'll try to create an example here
<-----this is from the DB-------> <-----this is form field--->
ID Task Hrs text box
1 adsfsd 1 a <---- user fills this
2 asdf 1.5 b <---- user fills this
3 eyst 2 a <---- user fills this
4 dghjfghj 2 c <---- user fills this
5 xdfb 1 b <---- user fills this
6 tyety 1.5 c <---- user fills this
________
| Submit |
--------------

So the user has to add hrs of those boxes for which have same values
entered by user. such as adding hrs of record 1 and 3 since both have
"a" entered by the user, adding record 2 and 5, as both have "b"
entered by the user and so on and so forth.

I'm using ASP and Javascript.

[Stephen Chalmers]

nidsonline wrote:

I've a page where I'm calling record from Database. Each record has an
ID and a text box displayed on the page. When the user fills in the
values of a text box, depending on the values of the text box i've to
do some further work. For eg. I've to add two records if the textbox
value of 2 records is same.

I'll try to create an example here
<-----this is from the DB-------> <-----this is form field--->
ID Task Hrs text box
1 adsfsd 1 a <---- user fills this
2 asdf 1.5 b <---- user fills this
3 eyst 2 a <---- user fills this
4 dghjfghj 2 c <---- user fills this
5 xdfb 1 b <---- user fills this
6 tyety 1.5 c <---- user fills this
________
| Submit |
--------------

So the user has to add hrs of those boxes for which have same values
entered by user. such as adding hrs of record 1 and 3 since both have
"a" entered by the user, adding record 2 and 5, as both have "b"
entered by the user and so on and so forth.

It seems you need to search a set of values for matches, ensuring that
you don't make the same comparison more than once. I assume that more
than two elements are allowed to be the same value.

Where 'v' is the array of elements and 'len' is the length of 'v',

for( var i=0; i<len; i++ )
for( var j=i+1; j<len; j++ )
if( v[i] == v[j] )
{/* your action */}

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S.C.

[nidsonline]

Thanks. I'll try and let you know.

Nidhi