Re: [mv] v3.14 extracting [value mv_searchspec]

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

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Brent - I think you need to use the INTERPOLATE=1 option on your [perl]
tag.  I believe this will force minivend to evaluate '[value
mv_searchspec]' instead of treating it as a literal string.

- Ed L.

>******    message to minivend-users from "Brent Worley" <brent@12ave.com>
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>I appreciate the help thus far, but I have ran into a slight problem.  I
>have built up mv_searchspec over several pages using javascript to seperate
>the individual values by spaces:
>
>function SetArgs()
>  {
>    var frm = document.mv_value;
>    frm.mv_searchspec.value = "Sansabelt" + " " + frm.waist.value + " " +
>frm.stride.value;
>  }
>
>I've used code similar to this on all the pages.  When I get to the last
>page I am trying to extract the individual values using perl:
>
>[perl scratch]
>  my $msg = '[value mv_searchspec]';
>  my @test = split(/\0/, $msg);
>  $Safe{'scratch'}{'Manuf'}=@test[0];
>  $Safe{'scratch'}{'Waist'}=@test[1];
>  $Safe{'scratch'}{'Stride'}=@test[2];
>  $Safe{'scratch'}{'Fabric'}=@test[3];
>[/perl]
>
>I've found code like this within the list archives and have yet to find
>anything that works.  This is what happens:  Within this last page, I dump
>all the scratch variables to the page to see what each array element was set
>to.  Instead of returning what is in mv_searchspec I return [value
>mv_searchspec] (<- that is what is actually displayed on the page).  I've
>tried other types of delimiters, but to no avail.  This is the last part of
>a very lengthy and important project, and I hate to know I've come this far
>and cannot get pass one minor detail.  I'm not sure of the version of perl,
>but I think it is fairly recent.  Any help anyone can offer will be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>
>Brent Worley
>
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