[javascript-dev] Searching through a string

Thanks for the reply, Wesley.  I was able to get it to work, thanks in  
no small part to using your observation!

Here is the working code:

----BEGIN SCRIPT----
function anything()
{
	var pattern=/sleep/;
	inputString = arrayfromargs(messagename, arguments);
	post("LENGTH IS " + inputString.length);
	post(inputString);
	for (var i=0; i<inputString.length; i++){
		if (inputString[i].match(pattern)){
			outputString="There it is!";
		}
		else{
			outputString = "Sorry, not here!";
		}
	}
	bang();
}
----END SCRIPT----

Best,

-R



Quoting Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke at gmail.com>:

> inputString is an array in your code.  Perhaps you need to do
> inputString[i].search(pattern).
>
> wes
>
> On 11/4/07, lists at zdomain.net <lists at zdomain.net> wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I've been trying to get the following search script to work, but I get
>> "inputString.search is not a function".  What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> ----BEGIN SCRIPT----
>> function anything()
>> {
>>         var pattern=/href/;
>>         inputString = arrayfromargs(messagename, arguments);
>>         post("LENGTH IS " + inputString.length);
>>         for (var i=0; i<inputString.length; i++){
>>                 if (inputString.search(pattern)){
>>                         outputString="There it is!";
>>                 }
>>                 else{
>>                         outputString = "Sorry, not here!";
>>                 }
>>         }
>>         bang();
>> }
>> ----END SCRIPT----
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> -R
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