OT: Winning entry in Javascript Monday Blah . . .

[Bradley Miller]

To call this I do this:

<input type="text" name="Price" value="" maxlength="10"  size="10"
onBlur="javascript:stripBadchs('Price','dollar value');">

I'm going to have to experiment a bit with a solution that Ray Holmes
mailed me privately . . . this seems to work on Netscape, but I haven't
tried it everywhere else yet.  (*sigh* -- freakin' 10,000 versions of
browswers . . . )

<script>
<!-- 
// Expects to receive the name or the identifier for a form object (id)

	// and a string (status) indicating what characters are permissible.

	

	function stripBadchs(idin,status) {

		
	id = eval("document.MDA_EDIT."+idin+".value");
	

	
	  var bad = 0

	  for (i = 0; i < id.length; i++) {

	    ch = id.substring(i, i + 1);

	    if ( status == "letters or numbers" ) { if ( (ch < "a" || "z" < ch) &&
(ch < "A" || "Z" < ch) && (ch < "0" || "9" < ch) ) { bad = 1; } }

	    if ( status == "letters" ) { if ( (ch < "a" || "z" < ch) && (ch < "A"
|| "Z" < ch) ) { bad = 1; } }

	    if ( status == "dollar value" ) { if ((ch == "$") || (ch == ",")) {
bad = 1 } }

	    if ( status == "numbers" ) { if (ch < "0" || "9" < ch) { bad = 1 } }

		if ( bad == 1 ) {	

	      id = id.substring(0,i)+id.substring(i+1,id.length)

	      i=i-1

	      bad = 0

	    }

	  }

	document.MDA_EDIT.eval(idin).value = id;
	}

// -->

</SCRIPT>