Case-Sensitive Search

**metallifan15** · 12-23-2008 11:29 AM

Hi Gang!

I'm learning some JavaScript iun a class and I have a search engine running a search on a JS file with 40 listings. The files I have are from a very old book, I bet some of you know it...the "JavaScript Application Cookbook." I'm trying to modify the JS and HTML pages to make the search be case sensitive. I have inserted a checkbox which is suppose to change the value of the function which controls if the search should be case-sensitive or not. So far, I have not been able to get it to work. It continues to come back as being case INsensitive. I could use some help if you please to get this to work.

I have tried several things recommended to me by my instructor, but nothing he has done has worked. We have enabled the console logger of Firebug to show the values for our functions and variables.

Here is some of the JS code which controls the search:

Code:

var CASE_SENSITIVE = false; // ***** ***** controls case-sensitive search across functions
var HTTP_RE = /\|[Hh][Tt][Tt][Pp]/; // ** regular expression object, for '|http' searching
var CASE = false;
var NOCASE = true;
___________________________________________________________________

// Determine the type of search, and make

// sure the user has entered something

function validate(entry, isSensitive) { // ** nocase added, to enable/disable case-sensitive search

  consoleLog("validate(\n\n=>" + entry + "\n\n" + isSensitive + " called."); // *****

  CASE_SENSITIVE = (isSensitive == "false" ? CASE : NOCASE);

here is the HTML file which contains the checkbox

HTML Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Search Nav Page</TITLE>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" SRC="records.js"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" SRC="nav2.js"></SCRIPT> 

</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="WHITE">
<TABLE WIDTH="95%" BORDER="0" ALIGN="CENTER">
<TR>
  <TD VALIGN=MIDDLE>
  <FONT FACE="Arial">
  <B>Client-Side Search Engine</B>
  </TD>

  <TD VALIGN=ABSMIDDLE>
  <FORM NAME="search" onSubmit="validate(document.forms[0].query.value,NOCASE); return false;">
  <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="query" SIZE="33">
  <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" name="case" id="case" value="1"><LABEL FOR="case">
  Case-Sensitive search</LABEL>
  </FORM>
  </TD>

  <TD VALIGN=ABSMIDDLE>
  
  <B><A HREF="main.html" TARGET="main">Help</A></B>
  </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Any help you can provide to get this to work will be acknowledged.

Thanks!

**Nedals** · 12-23-2008 12:34 PM

Not sure exactly what you are doing, but...

var http_re = /http/; will match http (lower-case only)
var http_re = /http/i; will match both HTTP and http (note the trailing 'i')

Hope that helps

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