Category Archives: Javascript

September 28, 2006

Javascript parseInt() quirk

I ran into a little quirk or ‘bug’ today when using parseInt() with a string (input from a text box). Now as we all know parseInt() parses a string and returns an integer value.
The scenario: I was working on a legacy application where a user could pass a date to the server in 3 separate [...]

September 19, 2006

Trimming strings with Javascript

Ben Nadel has a nice post on trimming strings with javascript using regular expressions.
Note that the reg exp white space character ‘\s’ is used to match:

space
tab
horizontal tab
vertical tab
line break

Sample code below:
<script type="text/javascript">

// Trims the beginning and trailing white space from a string.
function trim( strText ){
return( strText.replace(new RegExp("^([s]+)|([s]+)$", "gm"), "") );
}

// Trims the beinning white space [...]