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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hiya,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m working with Ajax and have a real basic question. Meanwhile I’m going to show what
I’m doing in this Ajax example, because surely there will be /(people)+/
that will find it intriguing or useful.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>My question is simply:
How do I assign input arguments that are passed to a .js file to variables in the
js code? That’s new to me, I think I’ve read ~ 42 million web
pages looking for that simple building block, and no joy.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Here’s the example:
</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'> <a
href="http://www.eskimo.com/~ghawk/ajax/test.htm">http://www.eskimo.com/~ghawk/ajax/test.htm</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Once on the page,
you’ll see a little “rotating” animated gif while the
external page/information is being read. The Perl script triggered by the
js code is looking for the number of sellers on this page: </span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black'><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ERVJM2/ref=pd_ts_d_31/102-0990943-3824922?s=dvd&v=glance&n=130">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000ERVJM2/</a></span></font><font
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:navy'> …where
it says something like</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>
</span></font><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000ERVJM2/ref=dp_olp_2/102-0990943-3824922?%5Fencoding=UTF8"><b><font
color="#003399"><span style='color:#003399;font-weight:bold'>56 used & new</span></font></b></a></span></font><font
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:navy'> (the number
changes of course).</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Once Perl has retrieved
that page and extracted the number, it is returned to the javascript (the js
file that was pulled in by the htm page), and Ajax sees the package has
arrived, updates the div (id is ‘display’) and places the digits
there, replacing the image.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>So, you might notice that
in the javascript, I am sending an arg:</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><script
language="javascript"
src="http://www.eskimo.com/~ghawk/ajax/test.js?a=B000ERVJKO"></script></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>...and that ASIN (Amazon
Standard Identification Number) is different than the one hardcoded (or medium
coded) into the .cgi file. Now all I have to do is persuade js to take in
that arg so it can be handed over to the Perl script.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In short, I need the <a
href="http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&num=100&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=js+equivalent+of+@ARGV">js
equivalent of @ARGV</a>.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
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