Evaluate Last 4 Characters Of File Name Using Javascript
Dec 31, 2007
I have built a page on a recruitment website which allows users to upload their CV via ASPUpload i.e a browse button. However I want to limit the file type to just MS Word documents as I do want them uploading large PowerPoint files etc. My idea is to have some javascript which evaluates the last 4 characters of the file name to ensure it is .doc
So if they try to upload anything other than a .doc file a dialogue box will appear stating that they must only upload MS Word Document (when they click the ‘Upload CV’ button).
Does anyone know how I can evaluate the last 4 characters of the file name? Once the user has browsed to their CV on their PC the path & file name will appear in a text field called ‘CV’.
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Dec 16, 2006
I have an outer page and an inner iframe. The outer page calculates some
javascript, and wants the inner frame to run it. The inner frame should hit
a page on the same (private) web server, so this is not a cross-site
scripting attack. But I would prefer not to taint the target page with any
extra logic to do this. (I will if I must.)
The calling page has these elements:
<script src="/javascripts/prototype.js" type="text/javascript" />...
<span id='update_me'>yo2</span>
<iframe id='grinder' src='sample.html' >
</iframe>
So here's most of the page which the iframe hits:
<script src="/javascripts/prototype.js" type="text/javascript" />...
<body bgcolor='silver'>
<span id='update_me'>yo</span>
</body></html>
Note that both the outer and inner page have a span with the same ID.
This question will resemble a JavaScript FAQ - how to evaluate Javascript on
the fly, or how to reload a JS file. The answers on the web generally do not
transport the JS across a frame boundary, so they don't address the bug I
encountered, and I can't tell if prototype.js or IE is at fault.
The outer page calls Ajax goodies that generate some JS looking like this:
Element.update("update_me", "here I B");
The page sends that, as a string, into this JS (in application.js):
function update_grinder(sauce)
{
var grinder = $('grinder');
if (grinder)
{
var doc = grinder.contentDocument;
if (!doc) doc = grinder.document;
if (doc)
{
evaluate(doc, sauce);
return;
}
}
document.write("your browser sucks");
}
So that contains enough logic to find the iframe's document, and it works
for Firefox, IE, Konqueror, and Opera. The code calls evaluate() with the
document where we need the evaluation context, and the string with our
source.
Here's evaluate():
function evaluate(doc, sauce)
{
var s = doc.createElement('script');
//s.defer = true; // <-- no effect
s.text = sauce;
var body = doc.getElementsByTagName('body').item(0);
if (body)
{
body.appendChild(s);
return;
}
body = doc.body;
if (body)
{
body.appendChild(s);
return;
}
}
That creates a <scriptblock, sticks our string in as its contents, and
pushes the block to the end of our <bodytag. Now here's the bug:
Firefox updates the inner <span id='update_me'>, and IE updates the outer
one.
If I remove the outer <span id='update_me'>, then IE simply can't find it
and throws an error. Even though it evaluates a script block clearly in the
context of the inner iframe.
I have tried calling the script from setTimeout, and from a button's onclick
handler.
Is there some script.aculo.us way to fix (yet another) bug in IE? Or is this
a bug in prototype.js?
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In IE, it looks like you can have to many characters in a javascript function.
The content of an entire html page is put into this function...
function updateTemplate(content) {
content=content.replace(/'/g, ''');
content=content.replace(/"/g, '"');
content=content.replace(/</g, '<');
content=content.replace(/>/g, '>');
Element.update('template',content);
}
it seems to cut off the content after about 2060 characters. is that an IE thing or is there something wrong with my code. FF does it fine...
If it is an IE thing, is there anyway around it?
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I'm adding character 253 to a javascript string this way:
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Is there another way to do this. Is there a function like: str += char(253)?
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