[IO-error]

Hi there fellow-geeks.

I got a problem, which I am unable to solve by myself.
I followed tutorials and asked some people that know quite a lot about javascript.

They couldn't help me, sadly enough.

I tried several things, they are prefixed with #1 and #2. To make clear which attempt is which code.


Header:

<script language="javascript">
<!--
function highlight(area){
document.form_code(area).focus()
document.form_code(area).select()
}
-->
</script>

Script:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function getSelText()
{
	var txt = '';
	var foundIn = '';
	if (window.getSelection)
	{ 
	 
		txt = window.getSelection();
		 
		 
	}
	else if (document.getSelection)
	{
		txt = document.getSelection();
		 
	}
	else if (document.selection)
	{
		txt = document.selection.createRange().text;
		 
	}
	else return;

#1	s = document.aform.selectedtext.value;
#1	document.write(s);
#1	s = s.replace(/Chr(9)/g,"\r");
#1	document.aform.selectedtext.value = s;

#2	document.aform.selectedtext.value = replace(document.aform.selectedtext.value, /Chr(9)/, "\r")

	document.aform.selectedtext.value = document.aform.selectedtext.value + "\r" + txt;
}
// -->
</script>

The code without prefix numbers is a working piece of code.
If you need more information about the script before you can help me, feel free to PM or, if possible, mail me.

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What are you trying to acomplish?
Could you explain a little bit more?

[Diego8]

What are you trying to acomplish?
Could you explain a little bit more?

[IO-error]

Of course.

I want to select some text and click that button.
When I click the button, javascript reads the text I selected.
That is already working.

But I want to change the value that he has read.
I want to take a tab, which might occure in a selection, and replace it with \r.

How would I actually change the inside of a variable, that is saved in an objectstructure?

[Diego8]

the string "object" has a replace method built-in.
An example of this function would be:

var str = 'this is a test';
document.write(str.replace("is","was"));

that would print "this was a test".
I think you can also use a regular expression as search pattern.
This web page may come in handy http://www.w3schools...ref_replace.asp

Edited by Diego8, 25 June 2008 - 06:09 PM.