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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Got it.&nbsp; </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
  10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Ajax</span></font><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> goes pretty well with Perl, but javascript doesn&#8217;t make it easy
to pass arguments around, and that&#8217;s essential sometimes. &nbsp;So I
think having a chunk of code in the toolbox for parsing input sent to a remote
.js file (think caching efficiency) from a webpage that uses Ajax is worth a
bit of time here, so I&#8217;ll share it.&nbsp; Thanks to those who replied.</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This solution basically started
here:&nbsp; <a href="http://feather.elektrum.org/book/src.html">http://feather.elektrum.org/book/src.html</a>,
a better than average writeup on it, and coincidentally, traction began when I
scanned cached js files on my drive that contained &#8216;parseQuery&#8217;
from that page. &nbsp;I happened to run into a file called WhiskerBiscuit[1].js,
apparently a cookie-cutter utility for parsing, from that same source, with
this attribution:</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>/*</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp; Code from
&quot;Developing Featherweight Web Services with JavaScript&quot;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="http://feather.elektrum.org/">http://feather.elektrum.org/</a></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp; (c)An
Elektrum Press, retain this notice</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
License: http://feather.elektrum.org/appendix/licenses.html</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>*/ </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Boiling their rather heavy file down and
extracting just some necessary elements from it, the two lines in bold below do
the parsing of the input string &#8216;a=B000ERVJKO&#8217; sent by the
following line:</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&lt;script language=&quot;javascript&quot;
src=&quot;http://www.eskimo.com/~ghawk/ajax/test.js?a=B000ERVJKO&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>// Parse inputs
arguments</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>// js something-like-ish-ness
of Perl's $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}, only not really.</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>// Two steps for
easy reading. &nbsp;Basically the script looking in the mirror:</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;font-weight:bold'>var
scripts = document.getElementsByTagName('script');</span></font></b><font
size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";color:black'> // from &lt;script ...&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;font-weight:bold'>var
<span style='background:yellow'>input</span>&nbsp;&nbsp; =
(scripts[scripts.length - 1]).src.replace(/^[^?]+\??/,'');</span></font></b><font
size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";color:black'> // trim</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>// Script that
this js (Ajax) will run is test.cgi.</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>// Here, relaying
the input on to the Perl script that will be doing the </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>//&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
heavy lifting even well after the original page is done loading</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>//&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
(except for the Ajax portion patiently waiting).</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>var <span
style='background:aqua'>PerlScript</span> =
&quot;http://www.eskimo.com/~ghawk/cgi-bin/test.cgi?&quot; + <span
style='background:yellow'>input</span>;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>// Ajax, here to end</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>if
(window.XMLHttpRequest) {&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // FireFox et. al.</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; http_request
= new XMLHttpRequest(); </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>}</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>else if
(window.ActiveXObject) {&nbsp; // IE</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; http_request
= new ActiveXObject(&quot;Microsoft.XMLHTTP&quot;);</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>}</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>var obj =
document.getElementById('foo');</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>http_request.open(&quot;GET&quot;,
<span style='background:aqua'>PerlScript</span>, true);&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>http_request.onreadystatechange
= function() {</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if
(http_request.readyState == 1) {&nbsp; </span></font><font size=1 color=gray
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:gray'>// Do something while waiting</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; document.getElementById('foo').innerHTML
= '&lt;img src=http://www.eskimo.com/~ghawk/ajax/loading6.gif&gt;';</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if
(http_request.readyState == 4) {&nbsp; </span></font><font size=1 color=gray
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:gray'>// Replace the image with something meaningful</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; document.getElementById('foo').innerHTML
= http_request.responseText;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>}</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>http_request.send(null);</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Now I need to know how to set a version so
that the client will only spend time grabbing the js code if it is new.</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Gary
 Hawkins</span></font></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Quality Assurance Engineer </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>&nbsp;</span></font></b></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face="HelveticaNeueLT Std Ext"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std Ext";color:navy'>W H I
T E P A G E S .C O M</span></font><font size=1 color=navy
face="HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended";color:navy'>&nbsp; </span></font><font size=2
color="#993300" face="American Gothic Regular"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"American Gothic Regular";color:#993300'>|</span></font><font
size=1 color="#993300" face="HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended";color:#993300'>
</span></font><font size=1 color=navy face="HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended";color:navy'>&nbsp;I
N C</span></font><b><font size=1 face="HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended";font-weight:
bold'><br>
</span></font></b><font size=1 face="HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended"><span
style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended"'><br>
</span></font><font size=1 color="#969696" face=Arial><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#969696'>p: 206.973.8215&nbsp;&nbsp;
|&nbsp;&nbsp; f: 206.621.1375<br>
</span></font><font size=1 face="HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended"><span
style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:"HelveticaNeueLT Std Extended"'><br>
</span></font><font size=1 color="#969696" face=Arial><span style='font-size:
8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#969696'>ghawkins@whitepages.com</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#969696" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:3.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#969696'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color="#969696" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#969696'>http://www.whitepagesinc.com/</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>PS&nbsp; Need to s/@ARGV/$ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}/
in my earlier message. </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
spug-list-bounces+ghawk=eskimo.com@pm.org
[mailto:spug-list-bounces+ghawk=eskimo.com@pm.org] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Gary Hawkins<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, June 20, 2006 12:58
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> spug-list@pm.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> SPUG: Ajax question - js
args</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Century><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hiya,</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I&#8217;m working with Ajax and have a real basic question.&nbsp; Meanwhile I&#8217;m going to show what
I&#8217;m doing in this Ajax example, because surely there will be /(people)+/
that will find it intriguing or useful.</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<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:&nbsp; How do I assign input arguments that are passed to a .js file to
variables in the js code?&nbsp; That&#8217;s new to me, I think I&#8217;ve read
~ 42 million web pages looking for that simple building block, and no joy.</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Here&#8217;s the example:
</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>&nbsp;<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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style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>&nbsp;</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 on the page,
you&#8217;ll see a little &#8220;rotating&#8221; animated gif while the
external page/information is being read.&nbsp; The Perl script triggered by the
js code is looking for the number of sellers on this page:&nbsp; </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&amp;v=glance&amp;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'> &#8230;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 &amp; 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'>&nbsp;</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 &#8216;display&#8217;) and places the digits there,
replacing the image.</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<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'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&lt;script
language=&quot;javascript&quot;
src=&quot;http://www.eskimo.com/~ghawk/ajax/test.js?a=B000ERVJKO&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</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.&nbsp; 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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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<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=&amp;num=100&amp;hl=en&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;as_epq=js+equivalent+of+@ARGV">js
equivalent of <s>@ARGV</s></a>. $ENV{&#8216;QUERY_STRING&#8217;}&nbsp; &lt;edited
by gh&gt;</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>&nbsp;</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks,</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'>Gary</span></font></p>

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