Detect underscore in formname and trim.

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1

My form names are all named like ‘home_lst_defect’ or “defect_frm_main”.

How do I cycle through each character to find underscore so I can then trim and use in a method.

Thanks

2

OK, I have this to get last part of string, having trouble with getting first part.

var x ="home_defect_test"
var div = x.lastIndexOf("_")+1
var y = x.substring(div,x.length)
3

why do you need to trim the ‘_’ for using in a method?

you can do this:

var myform = 'home_lst_defect' 
forms[myform].controller.loadAllRecords() // just an example, do what ever you want to do here....
4

Hi James,

What Harjo said.

Also when you want to parse a string like that you could use arrays.

var _sForm = "home_lst_defect",
    _aForm = _sForm.split("_");
// _aForm[0] gives first part
// _aForm[1] gives second part
// _aForm[2] gives third and last part
_sForm = _aForm.join(""); // make a string again without underscores
5

I worked out how to do it with a loop but I like the use of arrays.

I did not need to trim the underscores just detect the first word before the first underscore and the last word after the last underscore.

Split will do it. Thanks heaps