javascript fails

[Morten Snedker]

If my question is off this group, please point me in the right
direction.

Here goes:

My scipt fails between alert-2 and alert-3 with

"Object doesn't support this property or method" (freely translated
from Danish).

Any idea what could be wrong?

The code is a rip-off from
http://xaprb.com/articles/number-formatting-demo.html.

<script language="javas cript" type="text/javascript" >

function fNr(context){
alert("1");
var val = (context == null) ? new Number(this) : Math.abs(this);
alert("2");
var arr = val.round(2).to Fixed(2).split( ',');
alert("3");
arr[0] = (val < 0 ? '-' : '') + String.leftPad( (val < 0 ?
arr[0].substring(1) : arr[0]), 1, '0');
alert("4");
arr[0] = Number.addSepar ators(arr[0]);
alert("5");
arr[0] = Number.injectIn toFormat(arr[0].reverse(), '0###',
true).reverse() ;
alert("6");
arr[1] = Number.injectIn toFormat(arr[1], '00', false);
alert("7");
return arr.join(',');
}

</script>



Regards /Snedker

[Kevin Spencer]

Re: javascript fails

In the context of your ripped-off version, "this" is the HTML document. In
the context of the script you ripped off, "this" is a JavaScript object,
specifically, the JavaScript Number object:

http://www.comptechdoc.org/independent/web/cgi/javamanual/javanumber.html

The author of the script has extended the Number object via prototyping.The
following tutorial should help you to understand how it works:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/proto.shtml

--
HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
Logostician

http://unclechutney.blogspot.com

Parabola is a mate of plane.


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If my question is off this group, please point me in the right
direction.
>
Here goes:
>
My scipt fails between alert-2 and alert-3 with
>
"Object doesn't support this property or method" (freely translated
from Danish).
>
Any idea what could be wrong?
>
The code is a rip-off from
http://xaprb.com/articles/number-formatting-demo.html.
>
<script language="javas cript" type="text/javascript" >
>
function fNr(context){
alert("1");
var val = (context == null) ? new Number(this) : Math.abs(this);
alert("2");
var arr = val.round(2).to Fixed(2).split( ',');
alert("3");
arr[0] = (val < 0 ? '-' : '') + String.leftPad( (val < 0 ?
arr[0].substring(1) : arr[0]), 1, '0');
alert("4");
arr[0] = Number.addSepar ators(arr[0]);
alert("5");
arr[0] = Number.injectIn toFormat(arr[0].reverse(), '0###',
true).reverse() ;
alert("6");
arr[1] = Number.injectIn toFormat(arr[1], '00', false);
alert("7");
return arr.join(',');
}
>
</script>
>
>
>
Regards /Snedker