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12-18-2005, 02:50 AM

Sketch

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I have a validation section in some of my code. It's pretty simple, but the problem is there is 10 sections to it. I don't want to have to write out all 10 sections, I just want to write out one and get a loop to do the rest.

Is there any way to do this?

Code:

			if(document.RealEstate.INSPECTION_TIME_D1.value != "----") {
			
					alert("Error!\nYou have started Inspection #1 but you have not completed it.");
					return false;
				}			
			}

I want something like

Code:

for(x = 0; x !=; x++) {
if(document.RealEstate.INSPECTION_TIME_D+x+.value != "----") {
			
					alert("Error!\nYou have started Inspection #" + x + "but you have not completed it.");
					return false;
				}			
			}
}

Notice in the if statement, the INSPECTION_TIME_D is +x+ not 1. I want the X to replace the number.

I hope this makes sense, I'm sure its easy to do I'm just not sure how to do it.

12-19-2005, 01:49 AM

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You might like to try using the following if statement:

Code:

if(document.RealEstate["INSPECTION_TIME_D"+x] && (document.RealEstate["INSPECTION_TIME_D"+x].value != "----")) {

That checks if document.RealEstate.INSPECTION_TIME_Dx exists and if its value property doesn't equal "----". The first check isn't 100% necessary but trying to get the value will throw up JS errors if the item doesn't exist.