Coding Problem. Please help.

[nedhulton 0]

Please could you help me understand why the following does not work:

 

navigate("http://www.ubotstudio.com/resources", "Wait")
wait for browser event("Everything Loaded", "")
set(#text, $scrape attribute(<tagname="p">, "innerhtml"), "Global")
set(#text2, $eval("var example = \"{#text}\"; example;"), "Global")

 

For whatever reason, #text2 is always blank.

[LoWrIdErTJ - BotGuru 904]

why are you using eval?

 

remove the eval and it wont be blank.

[nedhulton 0]

Works great. Thanks

[UBotDev 276]

Text is blank because you are not escaping string that you are passing to JavaScript: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/2yfce773(v=vs.94).aspx

 

So here is how you would do it if you need to do it via eval:

set(#text2, $eval("var example = \"{$replace($replace($replace($replace(#text, $new line, "\\n"), "\\", "\\\\"), "\'", "\\\'"), "\"", "\\\"")}\"; example;"), "Global")

FYI, you should also use "wait for element" instead of "wait for browser event".

[nedhulton 0]

Thanks TJ for clearing up some further issues

Edited July 13, 2014 by nedhulton

[Marton 48]

To solve this specific problem with a workaround, why don't you use a simple regex with $document text or something ?

 

p.s.: you don't need to set allow javascript to "Yes", it's on by default

 

Marton