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Nordin Ben Ahmed
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Hi,


In an HTML-screen a listbox is filled with some values. One of these values is ‘H&K’. If I select this value and run the fex, the ‘H&K’ value is passed from the HTML-screen to the fex as a parameter value. The fex does not give any results because the HTML can’t deal with the ampersand (&) in the parameter value. If I look at the source code of the output of the fex, it shows that parameter value ‘H&K’ is perceived as parameter value ‘H’. How can I solve this issue?



(I encounter the same problem for value ‘X+S’. The source code shows that the parameter value that is being used in the fex is ‘X S’.)

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,


7.7.03
OS is Windows 7
We create al sorts of outputs depending on the demand, HTML (most cases), Excel (some cases) and PDF (some cases)
 
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Majid Jeddi
Guru
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Hi,

you have to parse the string that you have selected in the drop down list and replace
the "&" char with "&" and then send it to the fex file.
You may have other issue with other charcters:
have a look to the following list.

Regards.


if ( chara == '<'){
result.append("<");
} else if ( chara == '>'){
result.append(">");
} else if ( chara == '\"'){
result.append(""");
} else if ( chara == '\\'){
result.append("\");
} else if ( chara == '&'){
result.append("&");
} else if ( chara == '\''){
result.append("'");
} else {
result.append(chara);
}


WebFocus 7.6.5
AND WebLogic server as web server
sql2005 as database server
 
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