String.replace

Hi,

I am trying to match a value from a parameter from the URL with a value in a string variable, values which contain ampersands will not match however as when parsed to the URL it is converted to '%26'.

I tried placing the parameter value into a variable and calling 'string.replace' but collab doesn't seem to recognise this method.

Is there a similar method or way to do this?

Cheers,

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chyder

String.replace should work. I’ve tested the following code:

<ISPECT>String foobar ="foobar%26foobar"</ISPECT>

<ISPECT>showText(foobar)</ISPECT><br>

<ISPECT>foobar = foobar.replace("%26","&")</ISPECT>

<ISPECT>showText(foobar)</ISPECT>

Output:

foobar%26foobar
foobar&foobar

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String.replace

Posted by eddy.hutchins@macquarie.com (Hutchins, Eddy) On 2011/04/11 00:59

Hi,

I tried placing the parameter value into a variable and calling 'string.replace' but collab doesn't seem to recognise this method.

Is there a similar method or way to do this?

Cheers,

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Eddy_Hutchins

Hi Curtis,

Thanks for your reply, and you're right the string.replace method does work, so I don't know what I did wrong before. Although this hasn't seemed to resolve my problem, which I thought was the case..

I am trying to select the value in a drop down using the parameter value from the query string using the following code.

<ISPECT>String theParameterP6 = getParameterValue("P6")</ISPECT>
<ISPECT>String theParameterP7 = getParameterValue("P7")</ISPECT>
<option value="<ISPECT>showText(theString)</ISPECT>"
<ISPECT>if(theParameterP6 == theString || theParameterP7 == theString) selected="selected" </ISPECT>
><ISPECT>showText(theString)</ISPECT></option>

This works for all cases except for items in the drop down which include the '&' symbol, hence why I thought it may have been an issue stemming from the conversion to '%26'.

HOWEVER, I checked and even when both values are the same it still wont seem to remember any of the values with '&'s.

Any ideas on this?

Eddy_Hutchins

Replaced the '&' values with '&' to resolve.

Values now match!

Thanks,