Javascript String functions not working

Charles Paluda

<p>Hi, I'm trying to use the charCodeAt() function from BIRT's Javscript String Functions in the Palette.  I keep getting the error "TypeError:  Cannot find function chareCodeAt in object 244004385"</p><p> </p><p>244004385 is the value of an integer parameter that is passed in to the report.  I'm trying to use that in some Javascript code where I need to get the ascii code values of each character and add them up.  Strangely  if I run "charAt()" instead which is supposed to return the actual character that actually works except that it's return the code I'm after.  I.e. index 0 gives me 50 instead of 2, or index 1 gives me 52 instead of 4.  Here's a snippet of the code I'm using. I've tried using both the actual parameter (dragged in from the palette) or in the case of the first line below a page variable where I took the parameter and assigned it to the page variable with "params["ca_blockId"].value.toString()" in expression builder for the page variable.</p><p> </p><div><pre class="_prettyXprint">blockId = vars["pv_ca_blockId"];blockIdLength = BirtStr.charLength(blockId);currentPosition = 0;stringToNum = 0;while (currentPosition < blockIdLength){ stringToNum = blockId.charCodeAt(currentPosition) - 48; currentSum += stringToNum; currentPosition++;}</pre></div><p> </p>

Charles Paluda

<p>Ok nevermind I got it to work finally.  so the page variable was not working, not sure maybe I will try a report variable for kicks, but I actually got it to work with the report parameter instead. When I first tried using the parameter and dragged it over it formatted it as [color=rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;]"params["ca_blockId"].value" which was not working.  Replacing it with [/color][color=rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;]"params["ca_blockId"].toString()" fixes the problem all the way through.[/color]</p>