Hey all,

I am making my first attempts at Prontoscript. While I have succesfully played with example files and gotten them to work, and I have come up with working PS for a tuner I am working with, I cannot figure out how to parse data returned from the tuner. I can make a call and get the data, and display it on the Pronto, but it is a long string that I only need parts of (two separate parts) to display what I want. Anyone have any suggestions on a decent tutorial or explanation? The developers guide does not go into detail, so I assume it is a common Javascript feature, which I know little about.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks...

Captn Howdy

Yes, you are right: what you are looking for are standard Javascript functions. Relevant functions include indexOf and substring. Search for these in google and you will find lots of tutorials.

And don't forget regular expressions. Get the Flannagan book as a reference. It is all in there. Search the forum to find more on the book.

Again, there are lots of online tutorials about regular expressions. But beware: they are pretty incomprehensible things!

Thanks you guys. I found enough online about substrings to get the tuner data parsed and displayed the way I wanted. I am quite sure there are far more efficient and elegant ways to do what I did, but for a first attempt I am pretty excited. I will get the Flannagan book for future reference. Made my head hurt, but it was worth it. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

Captn Howdy