Script error in function using indexOf()

[Alberto Consonn]

Hi guys,

I have a problem with the below function for parse a string and extract a part of it

function grabContent(str, start, end) {   
	var startLen = start.length;   
	var s = str.indexOf(start);   
	var e = str.indexOf(end);   
	var scrape = str.substring(s+startLen, e);   
	return scrape;   
}

I got the following error message and I'm not able to have the expected result, could you please help me?

org.mozilla.javascript.EcmaError: Cannot find function indexOf in object [object EmailWrapper].
Caused by error in sysevent_in_email_action.d63f1540c3123100d5907bfaa2d3aebc.script at line 8

6: function grabContent(str, start, end) { 
7: var startLen = start.length; 
==> 8: var s = str.indexOf(start); 
9: var e = str.indexOf(end); 
10: var scrape = str.substring(s+startLen, e); 
11: return scrape; 

Thanks

Alberto

[Harsh Vardhan]

convert start to like 

var abc= start.toString(); and then add str.indexOf(abc);

[Anurag Tripathi]

Hi Alberto,

This looks like a type case issue.

Add .toString() to str so it becomes

str.toString().indexOf(start);

-Anurag

[Alberto Consonn]

I did it, now I got the following error:

java.lang.SecurityException: Method returned an object of type IdFunctionObject which is not allowed in scope sn_customerservice
Caused by error in sysevent_in_email_action.d63f1540c3123100d5907bfaa2d3aebc.script at line 8

6: function grabContent(str, start, end) { 
7: var startLen = start.length; 
==> 8: var s = str.toString().indexOf(start); 
9: var e = str.toString().indexOf(end); 
10: var scrape = str.substring(s+startLen, e); 
11: return scrape; 

Do you know how to fix it?

Thanks again 🙂

Alberto

[Dubz]

convert all your function args to string first.

function grabContent(str, start, end) { 
var strString = str.toString();
var startString = start.toString();
var endString = end.toString();  
	var startLen = startString.length;   
	var s = strString .indexOf(startString );   
	var e = strString .indexOf(endString );   
	var scrape = strString .substring(s+startLen, e);   
	return scrape;   
}