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Passing Strings with commas to a javascript method

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  • 11-08-2010 8:36pm
    #1
    Paddy GT
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭


    Hi people,

    This is probably a quicky for someone but its wrecking my head - I am trying to pass 2 strings which contain commas to a javascript method within a jsp but it fails as the javascript method thinks that the words in the string before and after the comma are seperate variables

    here is what I am trying to do in a simplified form:
     <script type="text/javascript">
function initialize(str1,str2) {
     console.log(str1);
     console.log(str2);
}
</script>
<%
String str1 = "hello, world";
String str2 = "stupid, commas";
%>

<body onload="initialize(<%=str1%>,<%=str2%>)">
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</body>

    The error that firebug gives me is :

    hello is not defined

    Hopefully someone has experienced this before and can point me in the right direction.

    Cheers,
    Patrick.


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    #2
    Paddy GT
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭Paddy GT


    Also before someone mentions that I could just escape the commas unfortunately I need the commas in the strings as the strings being passed are being used as googlemaps directions start and end points!


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    #3
    Eoin
    Registered Users Posts: 21,257 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    It's not the commas - you're passing in a string that's not in quotes.
    initialize(<%=str1%>,<%=str2%>)
    turns into 
    initialize(hello, world, stupid, commas)

    You need it to be: 
    initialize('hello, world', 'stupid, commas');

    So you need to do this: 
    initialize('<%=str1%>','<%=str2%>');


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    #4
    Paddy GT
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭Paddy GT


    eoin wrote: »
    It's not the commas - you're passing in a string that's not in quotes.
    initialize(<%=str1%>,<%=str2%>)
    turns into 
    initialize(hello, world, stupid, commas)
    You need it to be: 
    initialize('hello, world', 'stupid, commas');
    So you need to do this: 
    initialize('<%=str1%>','<%=str2%>');


    Cheers Eoin ... knew it would be something ridiculously simple!! :o


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