Re: simple question

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From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> writes:

> <head>
>
> <script language="JavaScript">
> <!-- Begin
> var msg = new Array();
> Stamp = new Date();
> today = Stamp.getDate();
>
> (messages)
> (messages)
> (messages)
> (messages)
>
> function writeTip() { 
> document.write(msg[today]);
> }
> //  End -->
> </script>
>
> </head>
> <body>
>
> <script>writeTip();</script>
>
> </body>
>
>
> Hi I have a simple question, if I had two of the above scripts on the 
> same page, how can I distinguish one from the other?

You can't, at least not in the way I think you mean.  I think you want
to be able to select two messages from two different arrays.  To do that
you should make the message array a parameter to your function.
(Personally, I'd do things a little differently but I want to suggest
minimal changes.)

So you have one script element with

  function writeTip(msgs) {
      document.write(msgs[new Date().getDate()];
  }

and then call it with different arrays from two other script elements
(I'll show only one):

  <script language=JavaScript>
      writeTip([
         "dummy",
         "Happy first!",
         ...
         "All over for this month."
      ]);
  </script>

No doubt I have lots of typos since this has not been machine checked.

Note how I have avoided variables where possible.  If you do need them
you should learn how to avoid them being "global".

-- 
Ben.

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simple question super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2017-11-12 07:04 -0600
  Re: simple question Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-12 14:22 +0000
    Re: simple question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-11-12 18:33 +0100
      Re: simple question Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-12 20:28 +0000
        Re: simple question super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2017-11-12 15:11 -0600
          Re: simple question Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2017-11-13 13:26 +1100
        Re: simple question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-11-12 22:39 +0100
          Re: simple question Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-11-13 01:20 +0000
            Re: simple question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-11-13 03:49 +0100
            Re: simple question Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-11-13 16:45 -0800

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