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zem52887 · May 25th, 2006, 2:33 PM

ah! figured something out. It's running every link in the table through the function, including the ticker symbol for public companies. I need to figure out a way to exclude the selecting of the ticker symbols.

I'm not sure what my options are but these 2 things came to mind:
a) Figure out a way to exclude links in brackets because all the ticker symbol links are enclosed in [____]
b) nevermind b, my original thought was that I could select the links from the "public" link, but those have tickers too...

any other options? is "a" even viable? is it possible to have two if statements in one return function and is that a good way of approaching it... similar to the if statement we have for financial information. Only, this if statement would skip links in brackets...

May 25th, 2006, 2:33 PM	#193
zem52887 Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 127 Rep Power: 3	ah! figured something out. It's running every link in the table through the function, including the ticker symbol for public companies. I need to figure out a way to exclude the selecting of the ticker symbols. I'm not sure what my options are but these 2 things came to mind: a) Figure out a way to exclude links in brackets because all the ticker symbol links are enclosed in [____] b) nevermind b, my original thought was that I could select the links from the "public" link, but those have tickers too... any other options? is "a" even viable? is it possible to have two if statements in one return function and is that a good way of approaching it... similar to the if statement we have for financial information. Only, this if statement would skip links in brackets... Last edited by zem52887; May 25th, 2006 at 3:02 PM.