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PaulRead-a838f3
Community Member
6 years ago

Remove/Ignore spaces at the end of multiple text entry fields - Javascript question

Hi
I wonder if any Javascript wizards can help?
Following this thread:
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/remove-ignore-spaces-at-the-end-of-text-entry-fields

var p = GetPlayer();
var textentry = p.GetVar("TextEntry");
var newTextentry = textentry.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');
p.SetVar("TextEntry",newTextentry);


I managed to copy the script to remove spaces from a text entry field called "TextEntry".

However, I would like to be able to iterate this through multiple text entry fields, which get names like "TextEntry1", "TextEntry2", etc etc.

Presumably I need some kind of loop, which appends a number to "textentry", "TextEntry", "newTextentry", and cycles through it until the nth iteration, but I don't know how to code this, and can't find an answer anywhere.

I hope this makes sense, and apologize if I've posted in the wrong place.

storyline 360

4 Replies

  • NadiaPicco-d87b's avatar
    NadiaPicco-d87b
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Hi Paul! Did you ever find a solution to this? I'm hoping to solve a similar problem. 

  • PaulRead-a838f3's avatar
    PaulRead-a838f3
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Hi
    Yes, I got there in the end...!

    This script will run through the variables TextEntryX to TextEntryY (you can specify the first and last in the series by changing X and Y below to numbers) and replace the input in each of those variables with a "cleaned up" version with spaces and apostrophes etc removed. 

     

    var p = GetPlayer();

    for(var i = X; i < Y; i++) {
    var textentry = p.GetVar("TextEntry" + i);
    var newTextentry = textentry.replace(/^\s+|\s+$|\'/g, '');
    p.SetVar("TextEntry" + i,newTextentry);
    }

  • JavierTapia's avatar
    JavierTapia
    Community Member
    5 years ago

    Hi, thanks for sharing your code. I was trying to make it work in one of my projects, I didn't at the begin but at the end with some modifications it did.

    What I did to make it work: for the first slide I used the following code (the first slide with text entry):

    var p = GetPlayer();

    var p = GetPlayer();

    var textentry = p.GetVar("TextEntry");

    var newTextentry = textentry.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');

    p.SetVar("TextEntry",newTextentry);

     

    Then for the rest I used this one:

    var p = GetPlayer();

    for(var i = 1; i < Y; i++) {

    var textentry = p.GetVar("TextEntry" + i);

    var newTextentry = textentry.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');

    p.SetVar("TextEntry" + i,newTextentry);

    }

     

    -Y- should be the last text entry you have plus 1.

     

    Make sure your triguer is before the submit interaction trigger.