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Hi.

Right, basically I'm trying to write a swear checker function. The code is this:

The swear checker itself seems to work - it chucks up an alert if any of the words are found - but what it doesn't do is stop the form from doing it's action. So even if the alert comes up, the 'return false;' part of it never seems to get through and I really don't know why.
As well as that in the alert, if there's more than one word, there's always a comma before every word after the first and I cannot ascertain as to why.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

cjh wrote:
> Yeah, sure you were ;)

Heh :-) I find it easier to do (if){thenning} because it's more logical and easier to comprehend.

> No problem, does it work as you'd wanted it too?

It indeed does. I realised why storing the found words in an array produced commas though... Well, actually I didn't but I remembered about the .join() method and used it as alert(found_words.join('.\n')) Did the trick nicely :-)

thanks again :-D

Yeah, sure you were ;)

No problem, does it work as you'd wanted it too?

Excellent, thanks.

I was thinking about doing it with for loops, but (if){thenning} was what I settled for. If I hadn't got it working through this, then for looping was my fallback plan.

Anyway.

Cheers :-)

ok, I've re-writen it for you, and it seems to do what you wanted.

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I got it working :)

Although, the pop-up window now likes to come up a load of times before it either submits or doesn't :(

Maybe you can see why, so here is the code I've got:
(I'll keep looking into it though)

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cjh wrote:
> with:
> found_words += swear_words[swear_words_length] + '.\n';


Excellent. That works. Thanks.

Re: the return problem, if I simply add "return false;" then yes, the form does not submit, so it IS a problem in the function. Exactly what that problem is I really don't know. Maybe it's because it has to cycle through the function more than once? I can't see why that would be the prob though because I've written a form validation script before which works on pretty much the same principle...


Hmmm.

Still looking into it :)

Oh, and language="javascript" is deprecated, its just: