Replacing Special Characters in Siebel

 Hello All, 

Recently i had a requirement where i had to replace some special character's like &,@ from SMS body that was sent as notification.

solution is very simple and basic :-), we need to use string function replace() for this and pass the pattern to replace.

var str= "Dolce & Gabbana"; var pat = "&"; var rtn = str.replace(pat, "%26"); TheApplication().RaiseErrorText(rtn );

We can write a business service for this and call this in WF or Script which we are using to send the SMS/EMAIL.

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Handling Special Characters in Siebel Script

Hello All,

Recently i was working with a very basic requirement where in i had to restrict user from entering some special character in a fields.

@$&*!?~^

#

>

<

|...etc

We had done this earlier with the below code , though the code is perfect but still has some undesired looping

var HouseNumber = this.GetFieldValue("House Number"); if ((HouseNumber != ""))   {   var RegillegalChars = "\\-)(,:;@*_=?.`<>[]{}!£$%^&*#/~|+' '";       for (c=0;c< RegillegalChars.length;c++)     {     fax_char = RegillegalChars.substring(c,c+1);     if (Regno.indexOf(fax_char,0) != -1)     { TheApplication().RaiseErrorText("'House Number' contains the "+"\'"+ fax_char +"\'"+" char. This is not allowed.");     }     }//for loop     }

i was going through some javascripts sites and found on more way of achieving this,

charCodeAt(0), function that checks for the first character in a variable

and using ascii values for the variable rather then the char value, so the code modified as

var HouseNumber = this.GetFieldValue("House Number");                                                 if(HouseNumber.charCodeAt(0) <= 47) { TheApplication().RaiseErrorText('Invalid Character!');                                                        }

we avoided multiple loops, and achieved the same functionality :-)

*I have used 47, as the ASCII values for special characters are less then 47 , for complete list see below
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pattis/15-1XX/common/handouts/ascii.html

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