Function Calls work on IE but not on Netscape

[ruvolojf]

Hi all! I am new to this group but not so new to web programming. However I am having a problem that I have not encountered before. I have a function that when called from another function fires up in IE but just hangs in Netscape. Here is the call to the function...

var colArr = new Array();
colArr = RemoveEmbeddedCommas(caseLogArr[i]);
 

caseLogArr is an array of strings.

I have a string that has fields delimited by commas, however, I also have fields that have quotes surrounding the text and that text contains embedded commas. A typical string segment would look like this...

Monday,"January 1, 2007",Tuesday,"January 2, 2007" etc.

My function eliminates the embedded commas so that I do not have separate fields for like ["January 1] and [2007"].

Here is the function...

function RemoveEmbeddedCommas(colStr)
{
    var colArr = new Array();
    var newArr = new Array();
    var colArrIndex;
    var quoteIndex = 0;
    var newArrIndex = 0;
    var matchQuoteFound;
 
    colArr = colStr.split(",");
 
    for (colArrIndex = 0; colArrIndex < colArr.length; colArrIndex++)
    {
        if (colArr[colArrIndex].indexOf('"') == 0 && colArr[colArrIndex].indexOf('"',1) == -1)
        {
            quoteIndex = colArrIndex + 1;    
            newArr[newArrIndex] = colArr[colArrIndex];
            matchQuoteFound = false;
            while (matchQuoteFound == false) 
            {
                newArr[newArrIndex] = newArr[newArrIndex] + " " + colArr[quoteIndex];
                if (colArr[quoteIndex].indexOf('"',1) > 0)
                {
                    matchQuoteFound = true;
                }    
                quoteIndex++;
                colArrIndex++;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            newArr[newArrIndex] = colArr[colArrIndex];
        }
        newArrIndex++;
    }
    return(newArr);
}

Like I said, this seems to work fine when I run it in IE but Netscape just hangs in the loading mode forever.

Thanks for any help,
Joe Ruvolo

[kovik]

It's likely that your while loop isn't ever terminating and, looking at it, it's not very well designed.

You could do what you're after using RegExp.

[ruvolojf]

Thank you voltricity!

I agree that the while is messy, so I reconstructed how I get the data in the first place and no longer need the while loop as it was. It all seems to work now.

Thanks again for your reply.

Joe Ruvolo