[FX.php List] Javascript question

[Bob Patin]

Worked like a charm... thanks,

BP

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On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:54 PM, "Fitzgerald, Theodore C" <ted-fitzgerald at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> The pipe character is a special character in regex.  You'll probably need to escape it.  
> 
> This should work:
> 
> document.write(str.search("\\|"));
> 
> Ted
> 
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> OK, Javascript experts, splain this to me:
> 
> If I put this:
> 
> var str="2014#Steven Patin";
> document.write(str.search("#"));
> 
> I get 4, which is what I would expect; now, if I put this:
> 
> var str="2014|Steven Patin";
> document.write(str.search("|"));
> 
> I get 0.
> 
> Why?
> 
> Is a pipe not allowed? I'm trying to concatenate an ID and a name together and them parse them back out in JS, and the 2nd example fails. Stumped as to why...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Patin
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