Hi folks,
I've got a small Javascript function that should parse form elements 
and remove a certain string from it.  This seems to work fine in 
NN4.7 and IE5.5 but not in Mozilla 0.9.4 which uses the W3C 
DOM.  I'm not familiar with this DOM and was wondering if anybody 
can see what I'm doing wrong here (or is it a Mozilla bug?):

//removes all of the field indicators from the field names
// "input" is a form
function cleanNames(input)
{
    // returns a string, currently "req_"
    var requiredField= getRequiredField();

    for (count= 0; count<input.length; count++)
	{
	    currentField= input.elements[count].name;

	    if (currentField.indexOf(requiredField) != -1)
		{
		    var tempString= currentField.substring(0, 
currentField.indexOf(requiredField));
		    tempString += 
currentField.substring((currentField.indexOf(requiredField)+ 
requiredField.length), currentField.length);
		    input.elements[count].name= tempString;
		} // end if
	} // end loop
} // end function cleanNames()

Eg, if I had fields req_surname and req_forename, it should strip 
out the "req_" and just return "surname" and "forename", but when 
I add an alert so that I can see the new elements as they're being 
added, anything that had "req_" is now coming up blank.

Thanks,
Raj.

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Rajnish Bhaskar
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IT Education Unit, University of Glasgow
http://www.iteu.gla.ac.uk/
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