Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Removing '&nbsp;' from strings ??
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:35:48 -0700
Lines: 31
Message-ID: <bjqjjpFrkm6U1@mid.individual.net>
References: <bjog40Fe7h5U1@mid.individual.net><XnsA2B6F00B7DFE3eejj99@194.109.133.133><0.14085b2fab6b953fb903.20140115234423GMT.87bnzcolns.fsf@bsb.me.uk><bjom61FfeukU1@mid.individual.net> <bjqegcFqgpcU1@mid.individual.net> <0.ae3d2a008e8309f72c9a.20140116161844GMT.87ob3blx23.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <bjqit9Frfe7U1@mid.individual.net>
X-Trace: individual.net 2pfEbChJsNAyjMkctzF0mQ6vuV4Uo7k8yJB7P1zk4SjpLveCFB
Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ki8cnNqSPMz32Y7fb3JGLMqK8lE=
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157
X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:22641

Hi:

    The corrected real code is below.

    Unfortunately, the result id the same: &nbsp; is replaced by " " for 
Chrome but *not* for IE8


********************
option = el.options[nindex] ; // text string with multiple 'nbsp;' in it
textstr = option.text ;
textstr = textstr.replace(/&nbsp;/g," ") ; // change '&nbsp;' into space 
globally

// get the clubname first
npos1 = textstr.search("Tees") ;
clubname = textstr.substring(0,npos1) ;
alert("a. Code at start= " + clubname.charCodeAt(0)+"  Code at end= 
"+clubname.charCodeAt(clubname.length-1)) ;
clubname = alltrim(clubname) ;   // trim spaces off of the ends of the 
clubname
alert("b. Code at start= " + clubname.charCodeAt(0)+"  Code at end= 
"+clubname.charCodeAt(clubname.length-1)) ;
// in both alerts above the chars at the start and end are Unicode 160 
(unbreakable space) in IE8

alert("clubname=**"+clubname+"**  Len = "+clubname.length) ;