delimiters conflicts

I am taking data from my database to show in a FCKeditor area -- this data may contain [] or single or double quotes. I need to wrap it in something when I assign the value, e.g.,

oFCKeditor.Value = "This is a ..."

and this will fail if the delimiters I choose appear in the data.

I'm sure thre is a sumple solution, but I can't think waht it might be. Any help?

Thanks,

Tue, 12/06/2005 - 14:02

dickhildreth

Joined: 10/05/2006

Posts: 10

RE: delimiters conflicts

I resolved the issue by using the ReplaceTextarea() construct instead of the Value =

Wed, 12/07/2005 - 06:50

spp1

Joined: 27/06/2006

Posts: 23

RE: delimiters conflicts

Thanks for the reply, Dick. One of the reasons I have adopted FCKeditor (to replace another package) is that I don't have to take the ReplaceTextarea approach (it seems to be much more combersome to implement). However, that may be just my personal preference.

I think I have resolved my problem by converting all delimiters in my data to character entities, and then using square brackets (which aren't used in html markup) in my code to set the value.

Not sure if this is the best way of going about it, but it seems to work.

Thanks again

Reg

Wed, 12/07/2005 - 06:59

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: delimiters conflicts

It's up to the language that you use to create the editor, but you need to escape the delimiting chars inside your string, so if the editor it's created in JS, then it would be like this:

oFCKeditor.value = "This string has \"quotes\"" ;

But I didn't hear before about square brakets as delimiters, so I don't know what you are using.