Searching Databases

JavaScript for Searching Databases
(Searching a modestly-sized 1152 character database)

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<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Searching Databases</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Hide from JS-Impaired Browsers
// First, get the correct newline character
rr=""+(navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win")>-1?"\r\n":"\n");
db=new Array();
dblc=new Array();
var arrayflg=0;

function loadIt(){
 /* This separate function simply
    saves parsing the database for
    each search. The arrayflg is
    used to flag that it has been
    done. */
 arrayflg=1;
 /* First, read in the string from
    the hidden form element. */
 ls=document.ug.ly.value;
 ctr=0;
 /* Then parse the long string and
    load it into the array. */
 while (ls.indexOf("*")>-1){
  pos=ls.indexOf("*");
  db[ctr]=ls.substring(0,pos);
  /* Similarly, no need to repeatedly
     convert the strings in the array
     to lower case. Once is enough. */
  dblc[ctr]=db[ctr].toLowerCase();
  ls=ls.substring(pos+1,ls.length);
  ctr++;
  }
 }
// End Hiding -->
</SCRIPT>
<BODY BGCOLOR="white"><CENTER>
<P><B>JavaScript for Searching Databases</B>
<BR>(Searching a modestly-sized 1152 character database)
<FORM NAME="ug">
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="ly" VALUE="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs and ran into the noonday sun.*Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.*All that glisters is not gold, gilded tombs do worms enfold.*Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.*I wept because I only had an Apple Macintosh computer until I met a man who had a PC.*If Murphy's law is true, there is a missspelling in this sentence*If computer hardware is but a boat anchor, what is software - the anchor chain?*A lot of people search for the word 'test' or the word 'sex'.*Accountants will be pleased to learn that Ira Magaziner is the new Internet Tax Czar, implementing taxes on all World Wide Web communications.*Some people say man is made out of mud.*But a poor man is nothing but muscle and blood.*When, in the course of human events, it becomes... Well, you know.*Silly is as silly does. I know, because I work in the IS department.*People who live in cubicles shouldn't throw stones at trailer trash.*Searching a site database is really pretty easy, isn't it?*I am learning ugly JavaScript from someone who knows ugly.*Stone walls do not a prison make, nor a cubicle a cage.* ">
<P><B>Type a search word and click the Search Button</B>
<BR><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="wrd" VALUE="">
<BR><INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="but" VALUE=" Search " onClick="showIt()">
<P><TEXTAREA NAME="ta" ROWS=12 COLS=75 WRAP=VIRTUAL>
</TEXTAREA>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>