Well... with a refresh after the change (this stuff is AJAX'ed and sometimes changes document changes don't refresh like I think they would) the validation seems to be working correctly.
Thanks for the feedback, Jonah! :o) Rick -----Original Message----- From: .jonah [mailto:jonah....@creori.com] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 4:51 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: OT, JS : Why am I getting this error? what I'd do in this case is log each of the tests above the if. console.log(atpos); console.log(dotpos); console.log(fieldToValidate.val().length); console.log(atpos < 1); console.log(dotpos < atpos + 2); console.log(dotpos + 2 == fieldToValidate.val().length); And see what's erroring. On 10/31/11 1:42 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote: > Yeah, I caught that one after sending my message. > > Now, I'm getting: 'syntax error' > > for: > > if ( atpos< 1 || dotpos< atpos + 2 || dotpos + 2 == > fieldToValidate.val().length ) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: .jonah [mailto:jonah....@creori.com] > Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 4:28 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: OT, JS : Why am I getting this error? > > > In JS Comparison (what you are doing) is "==", while assignment (what > it's complaining about) is "=". > > On 10/31/11 1:19 PM, Rick Faircloth wrote: >> Assuming the vars are correctly assigned, >> why would this statement: >> >> var atpos = fieldToValidate.val().indexOf('@'); >> var dotpos = fieldToValidate.val().lastIndexOf('.'); >> >> if ( atpos< 1 || dotpos< atpos + 2 || dotpos + 2 = >> fieldToValidate.val().length ) >> >> give me this error for the "if" line above in firebug: >> >> 'invalid assigned left hand site' >> >> Without making any wade through all the code involved >> at this point, is there anything in the code above >> that is wrong? >> >> The syntax of the line in question came straight from >> the W3C site... >> >> Thanks for any feedback! >> >> Rick > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:348376 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
