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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: string comparison fails? - Image1.jpg (0/1)
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joe <mt@invalid.com> writes:

> In my javascript I use XMLHttpRequest to get an htm file into text memory
> (varaibale "all") and them split the text into an array with following code:
>
> ...
>             var apu2=all.split(">");
>             var ii=apu2.length;
>             for (i=0;i<ii;i++)
>                {
>                allte=apu2[i].substring(0,4);
>                if (allte=="TTY")

There's a big clue here.  How can a 4 character string ever equal "TTY"?

<snip>
> The local file I'me reading into "all" and then splitting into array at ">" is:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> <HTML>
> <head>
> <title></title>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> </head>
> <BODY>
> TTY:helpc.htm
> </body>
> </html>

Almost every ">" is follwoed by a newline character.  I'm guessing that
what looks to you like "TTY" is, in fact "\nTTY" (and hence 4 characters
long).

-- 
Ben.