Getting NaN -- What does this mean?

Hello all:

I am currently doing something that takes a couple of values and outputs their product to a textbox. While Internet Explorer does this fine, NN 4.6 doesn't. Instead of the product, I get the string, "NaN". Anyhelp would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeremy
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function compute(newtimevalue)
{
var current_matter = new String(document.newevent.c_matter.options.value);

new_array = current_matter.split("-", 2);

var nrate = 0;

nrate = new_array[1];

document.newevent.hrs.value = newtimevalue;

var tamount = nrate * newtimevalue;

document.newevent.amount.value = tamount;
}

I am sorry, I must point out that the reason quotes are escaped in my source is because this is output by PHP.

(which I am sure you figured it out)

Thanks,

;^]

I'm not sure exactly where you went wrong, but I know that NaN stands for "Not a Number." (Like the function isNaN().)

FYI: Use the parseInt() or parseFloat() functions to change the datatype to a number.