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Sep 03.2010

Hi Im new to the forums. Here is what Im trying to do. I am grabbing a url, converting it to a string and searching if that string contains the word “true”.
If it finds true i set the page to refresh every 5 seconds. If true isn’t there the page will refresh every 6 minutes. Currently it refresh every 5 seconds no matter if it finds “true” in the string or not.

var url = document.location.href;

var pat = /True/i;
url = String(url);
var word = url.search(pat);
if (word = true)
{
setTimeout(“location.reload()”, 5000);
}
else
{
setTimeout(“location.reload()”, 6000000);
</script>

i think what im doing wrong is that the pattern search doesnt return the value “true” but a number. But Im not sure.

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@Sterling_IsfineSep 03.2010 — String.search returns the index of the found string or -1 on failure.

Use:[CODE]setTimeout( 'location.reload()', location.href.search(/true/i) > -1 ? 5000 : 360000 );[/CODE]

You could refine the search but you don't say which part of the URL should contain the string. Is it a parameter?
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@AlBarauthorSep 03.2010 — Thanks for the reply.I 'm passing a parameter from the previous page whether a checkbox is checked or not. I just need to search the string. If it has the word true in it i want it to refresh every 5 seconds. If the word is false or any other word, I want it to refresh every 6 minutes.

I have also tried this: but I dont know how to interact with the retrun value from the test() method.

var url = document.location.href;

var pat = /True/i;
var word = pat.test(url);
alert(url);
if (word = true)
{
setTimeout("location.reload()", 5000);
}
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@Sterling_IsfineSep 03.2010 — You used the wrong operator:
[CODE] var url = document.location.href;

var pat = /True/i;

var word = pat.test(url);
if (word [B][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]==[/COLOR][/B] true)
{
setTimeout("location.reload()", 5000);
}[/CODE]

Something a bit stricter, say the parameter is called 'checked':[CODE]setTimeout( 'location.reload()', location.href.search(/(?|&)checked=true(&|$)/i) ? 5000 : 360000 );[/CODE]
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