Don,

Did you remove the white space in front of "var b;"?

I have seen this before when I copy code from another editor to Interdev -
could there be some hidden TAB or something in that white space?

Regards,

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Woo [mailto:dwoo@r...]
Sent: 12272000 12:26 AM
To: javascript
Subject: [javascript] "Invalid Character"


I have a client-side script that's does a pattern check on some input
text, mainly date, time, or datetime data.  My code works fine in IE, but
under Netscape 4.7, I keep getting an invalid character error. If I
look under the Java Console (type "javascript: in the URL") it says

"illegal character."
"          var b;  "
".....^            "

Which doesn't make any sense.
My function code is:

function MRE()
{
    var a;
    var b;
    var strg = arguments[0];
    var mode = arguments[1];
	    
    switch(mode)
    {
 	case 1:	//DateField
   		b = "\\d?\\d/\\d?\\d/\\d\\d";
	case 2:	//TimeField
		b = "\\d?\\d:\\d?\\d:\\d?\\d";
	default:	//DateTimeField
		b = "\\d?\\d/\\d?\\d/\\d\\d\\s\\d?\\d:\\d?\\d:\\d?
                     \\d\\sAM|PM";
    }	
    a = new RegExp(b, "i");
    window.alert(a.test(strg));
    return a.test(strg);
}

I was using direct variables in the function declaraion:
"MRE(strg,mode)",  but was trying anything to solve this weird problem.
I even tried retyping it. I am using Interdev to develop my code.
I move the code to some other location on my page, but the problem
followed...... For a while, the smae error was appearing on the
line with my "switch" statement, not sure how or why it moved.....
help!!!!!!



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