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This is a stub from a project. My goal is to look through all the fields in the document, then put any of them whose name begins with "topPh" (they all end in numbers) into my array fields[]. I'm still researching how to decide which names conatin the substring for the if statement, but in the meantime I am testing using this:
var fields = [];
for (var i = 0; i < this.numFields; i++){
var f = this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i)).name;
if(f = "topPh2") fields.push(f);
} //end of for loop
app.alert(fields);
I expected it to put one value in fields[]: topPh2. It seems to be doing it many times. In fact, I crashed Acrobat through console doing something similar. This is what it puts out:
What am I doing wrong here?
*Sigh*
This was easy. '=' is not a logical operator.... I needed '==':
var fields = [];
for (var i = 0; i < this.numFields; i++){
var f = this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i)).name;
if(f == "topPh2") fields.push(f);
} //end of for loop
app.alert(fields);
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*Sigh*
This was easy. '=' is not a logical operator.... I needed '==':
var fields = [];
for (var i = 0; i < this.numFields; i++){
var f = this.getField(this.getNthFieldName(i)).name;
if(f == "topPh2") fields.push(f);
} //end of for loop
app.alert(fields);