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Jimmathy
Inspiring
February 20, 2011
Question

charAt is returning ASCII values

  • February 20, 2011
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I'm running some script using the charAt() function, that is supposed to return the character at specific indexes in a string, however for some reason it is returning ASCII values. Any ideas of why this might be?

thanks

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kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 20, 2011

copy and paste enough of your code to see your string's definition and your charAt() method.


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JimmathyAuthor
Inspiring
February 21, 2011


Well thats where it gets a little nasty. This code is beign run on a smartfox server, and its pulling from a .mdb database cell, via SQL and jdbc-odbc driver. The cell has a 25 characters in it. And this data is in the object queryRes. The only thing that I can think of is that maybe oldString is being set to something other than a string somehow, but i havent gotten around to messing with checking that out yet.

function processUpdate(params, queryRes, obj)
{
var tempRow = queryRes.get(params.mp-1);
var newStringValue = "";
var oldString = tempRow.getItem([params.mpy]);
for( i = 0; i < 25; i++)
{
  if(i != params.mpx)
  {
   newStringValue += oldString.charAt(i);
  }else if(i == params.mpx){
   if(obj == true){
    newStringValue += params.dato;
   }else{
    newStringValue += params.dat;
   }
  }
}
return newStringValue;
}

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