Regarding Double Quotes [Javascript] problem

Hi,
In a BSP application I have a field with F4 help (Popup Page).
F4 Help Page contain search fields and results in tableView, each cell
in tableView is rendered using htmlb_link controller. In event
onclientclick of the htmlb_link I'm using a Javascript method for
passing data back to the calling window.
CONCATENATE 'passDataBack("' browner_id '", "' browner_text '")' INTO
lorv_link->onclientclick.
JavaScript Method has the following body.
function passDataBack(browner_id, browner_text )
window.opener.document.getElementById("
<%= controller->mv_js_browner_id %> ").value = browner_id;
window.opener.document.getElementById("
<%= controller->mv_js_browner_text %> ").value = browner_text;
IF the data browner_text contain text with double quotes, then I'm
getting Java Script error. I tried encoding the string, double Quote are
converted to " but still, the Java script error is showing.
Please suggest a solution.
Thanks & Regards
Geogy

try this
CONCATENATE `passDataBack('` browner_id `', '` browner_text `' )` INTO
lorv_link->onclientclick.

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UW-Madison

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A colleague of mine worked out a pretty cool (if complicated) solution that I'll share if anyone is interested. Since the q-marks where the problem, we've set it up so that the TEB validates the response for the search string with q-marks around "college students." If they enter it correctly, the tutorial jumps to the corresponding slide. The attempt # is set to 1, and if the user fails to enter the validated phrase (they misspell or use one of the other response options) then the TEB is set to run an Advanced Actions Script in which the other two options are scripted in IF/THEN statements that cause, when the term is entered correctly, the tutorial to jump to their corresponding slides. We've created another tab of IF/THEN statements that say that if the response is NOT equal to one of these response options, then the slide restarts (technically the slide "jumps" back to itself and starts over) and the user gets another chance to start the cycle over again.
I know this is confusing (I had a really hard time explaining it in words), so if anyone is interested I could make a Jing video when I have some time.
Thank you for all your suggestions

Extracting data in .txt which is enclosed in double quote," "

Hello everyone,
I am trying to read data from a .txt file which look like below.
"13.000000,393.000000 13.000000,291.000000 92.000000,284.000000 94.000000,380.000000 64.000000,385.000000 13.000000,388.000000 "The problem is every time i tried to read and save the data, i also save the double quote sign. Is there anyway to ignore the double quote sign? I am using the below coding to read and save the data in double array. Anyway will be great.
     FileReader fread=null;
         BufferedReader bread = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("test1.txt"));
            java.io.File file=new java.io.File("test1.txt");
         java.util.Scanner input=new java.util.Scanner(file);
         while(input.hasNext()){
          String arr=bread.readLine();
String[][] str = buildArray(arr);

veldhanas wrote:
Hi,
String yourString = bread.readLine();
         String substring = yourString.substring(1,yourString.length()-1);
         System.out.println(substring);
[See the String class |http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html]
ThanksWatch out for those empty lines...

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