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So after being confused as to why I kept seeing the javascript error ‘missing ; before statement’, I realized that javascript variables can’t begin with a number.<\/p>\n

My code was:<\/p>\n

for (int i = 0; i < top; ++i) {
\n eval("form." + <span style="color:red">fieldsArray[i]<\/span> + ".value");
\n}
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fieldsArray contains a string ‘0to99scans’ referring to a form input ‘0to99scans’. This should have been something like ‘zeroTo499scans’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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