Passing a string URL into javascript 1

[gtubb]

Hi folks

I can handle ASP, but I'm a bit of a novice at Javascript.

I have a working javascript slide show function. I want to pass a URL from a hidden form field into the script like so:

Pic[1] = '<%=request.form("picture2")%>'

This puts the URL of the picture into the script, but strips out all the forward slashes, making it useless.

How do I pass the string into the script with the slashes in place?

I hope someone can help - I've spent houyrs trying to figure it out!

 

[vbkris]

Pic[1] = '<%=replace(request.form("picture2"),"\","\\")%>'

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

 

[gtubb]

Many thanks - it works!

This might seem a dumb question, but why does js remove the slashes in the first place?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

It doesn't remove them as such... It treats backslash characters as escape characters, so in combination with the succeeding character, they tell JS to insert a special character. To present backslashes to JS, you need to escape them with a backslash, so:

var myString = 'c:\\program files\\myfile.txt';

Other escape combinations include '\n' (newline) and '\t' (tab)

Hope this helps,
Dan