What's wrong with this code?

[shawnblc]

What's wrong with this code? I'm getting 'verified' nearly all the time.

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on mouseUp
    put fld "fldReceipt" into tReceipt
    put word 4 of line 1 of URL "http://domain.com/app.php?receipt="&tReceipt&"" into tConfirmation
    
    if tConfirmation = tReceipt then
        put "Verified" into fld "fldReceipt" else
        put "Not Verified" into fld "fldReceipt"
    end if
end mouseUp

[Klaus]

Hi shawn,

did you verify that the webpage is loading correctly?

Try this:

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on mouseUp
    put fld "fldReceipt" into tReceipt
    put word 4 of line 1 of URL ("http://domain.com/app.php?receipt=" & tReceipt) into tConfirmation
    
    if tConfirmation = tReceipt then
        put "Verified" into fld "fldReceipt" 
    ELSE
        put "Not Verified" into fld "fldReceipt"
    end if
end mouseUp

You can also ANSWER tReceipt and tConfirmation, will cause the "AHA" effect most of the time
And "debugging" the script might also help


Best

Klaus

[shawnblc]

When I use the following, both match. Still everything is verified.

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answer tReceipt

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answer tConfirmation

[dunbarx]

Hi.

The code runs fine. What is in fld "tReceipt" at the getgo? I get "tReceipt" from the web page. In other words, what is being compared to what?

Craig

[magice]

I'm not sure if this will help, but I have had trouble in the past with concatenating a string within a URL before. It was probably a problem with the quotation marks, but I fixed it by concatenating the URL string into a variable instead and then using just the variable within the put URL command. This gave me an opportunity to check the url with an answer command before retrieving the data.

[FourthWorld]

When the engine sees this:

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put word 4 of line 1 of URL "http://domain.com/app.php?receipt="&tReceipt&"" into tConfirmation

...it thinks:
1. Get the URL
2. Get line 1 of the value returned from the server
3. Get word 4 of that line
4. Append tReceipt to that
5. Put all that into tConfirmation

To help the engine understand that you want tReceipt appended to the URL rather than the result of the URL, try using parentheses for making the order of evaluation more explicit, as in:

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put word 4 of line 1 of URL ("http://domain.com/app.php?receipt="&tReceipt&"") into tConfirmation