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JavaScript and PT

bagman

I have the following code attempting to take a value from my DCR and pass it to a JavaScript function.

<td width="170"><a href=").$promoitem[2].q(" target="_blank" onclick="return(openwin(').$promoitem[2].q('))"><b class="articleheader">).$promoitem[1].q(</b></a></td>

The call to $promoitem[2] in the href section works fine. But, the second call (openwin function) gets quoted exactly in the generated page as shown below...

<td width="170"><a href="/us/customer/whichcompany.html" target="_blank" onclick="return(openwin(').$promoitem[2].q('))"><b class="articleheader">Not sure which company to contact?</b></a></td>

Is there a way to escape the single quotes or something?

I'm using the latest versions of TS and TST.

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Adam Stoller

I'm not sure about javascript - but you could try using backslashes to escape internal double-quotes ("...\"...\"..."), if you're within Perl context you could use the qq() subroutine - which is like putting double-quotes around everything without the actual double-quotes. Or perhaps you can do variable substitution earlier and put the entire javscript piece of code for the onclick into a variable which you can then output with one level of quotes instead of multiple nested quotes?

Just guessing here - since I'm not sure I understand the code you posted.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

bagman

I moved the substitution to another variable and put the new variable inside the onclick event and everything worked out fine. Thanks for the tip.