array mystery

[Peter M. Brigham, MD]

Well, I've given up for the moment. Weeding out null characters made no difference, and arrayEncoding/decoding made no difference, and putting the text string into a field and getting the text of the field made no difference, so it wasn't the cross-platform line delimiter issue, as I had thought. I still don't know what the problem is. The debugger shows the correct array contents, but getting the array content from a script returns empty. I'm going to use a different page-scraping approach entirely when I can stand to go back to it -- that will be a bigger job.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

On May 9, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> Hi Peter,
> I know this is a bit late but I just remembered there's a pretty cool
> screen scraping plugin for Firefox called Outwit Hub.  I've used it a few
> times and it's worked very nicely.  Probably too late for you now since
> you've written LC handlers to do it.
> 
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD <pmbrig at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> I have a customprop, CYPdata, that is an array, each element of which is
>> an array itself. I am scraping the data to build CYPdata from an HTML page
>> on the web, and filling it via script by parsing the HTML. There is an odd
>> bug that I'm trying to get to the bottom of, and something strange is
>> happening when I do the following in a test button:
>> 
>> on mouseUp
>>  put the CYPdata of this stack into CYParray
>>  put CYParray["fluvoxamine"] into aFLV
>>  put CYParray["doxepin"] into aDOX
>>  put aFLV is an array into testFLV
>>  put aDOX is an array into testDOX
>>  breakpoint
>> end mouseUp
>> 
>> In the debugger variable pane at the breakpoint, expanding the array
>> CYParray shows the keys, which are a whole list of drugs (as it should be),
>> and each key/drug is indeed indicated as containing an array (with the
>> little gray expansion triangle at the left). If I examine
>> CYParray["fluvoxamine"] by clicking the expansion triangle, it shows the
>> elements of that array, as expected. Same for CYParray["doxepin"]. The
>> correct data is there in both cases. However, the aDOX variable does not
>> display as an array (no expansion triangle) and testDOX = false, whereas
>> aFLV is indeed an array, as displayed in the debugger and confirmed by
>> testFLV = true.
>> 
>> What could be going on here? As it happens, the "doxepin" case is handled
>> differently from the "fluvoxamine" case when I parse the HTML in loading
>> the array, since they appear in slightly different contexts, so that must
>> be the source of the difference, but how can the debugger show the
>> "doxepin" array keys properly but somehow CYParray["doxepin"] not an array?
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> -- Peter
>> 
>> Peter M. Brigham
>> pmbrig at gmail.com
>> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>> 
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