Question

This is a stupid noob issue that just pisses me off .. sorry.

• This works: alert('hello');
• This works: alert(getsomestring());
• This works: alert('hello'+'goodbye')
• So why doesn’t this work: alert('hello'+getsomestring());

I tried these with no luck:

alert('hello'+getsomestring(););
alert('hello'+getsomestring().toString(););

thanks.

using it as follows:

<script language="JavaScript">
function getQueryString() { 
    var assoc = new Array(); 
    var queryString = unescape(location.search.substring(1)); 
    var keyValues = queryString.split('&'); 
    for (var i in keyValues) { 
        var key = keyValues[i].split('='); 
        assoc[key[0]] = key[1]; 
    } 
    return assoc; 
} 



</script>

<script language="JavaScript">
alert('?h='+getQueryString()["search"];);
//localSearchHighlight('?h='+getQueryString()["search"]); 
);

</script>

Answer 1

Your code has syntax errors, in the second <script> block. It should read:

alert('?h='+getQueryString()["search"]);

• There was a ; inside the function call parens.
• You had an additional line with ); after your comment.

Other than that, it seems to work like you want it too.