In the past when a user needed to track a package sent via USPS they would press a button that had the code bellow on it. It would then connect via usps API and return a webpage with tracking data.

The user would then use cut and paste to place the info in an elment then press a convert button that would replace certain characters and use @AccessStringArray() to put the data where we wanted it.

Could I eliminate the cut and paste some how by using @HTTPGetHTML() or some other new command? is there a cleaner method for me to get data into the record then I am using?

Thanks

var n as int

if not @isblank(trackingnum)

{
n=@AsynchShell("http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=TrackV2&XML=<TrackReques... USERID=" + @Chr(34) +"176543218" + @Chr(34) + "><TrackID ID=" + @Chr(34) + trackingnum + @Chr(34) +"></TrackID></TrackRequest>")
}

else

{
PopupSelectPosition(4,@XPos(ThisElement),@YPos(ThisElement))
@msgbox("The Tracking Number field", "             Can NOT", "          be left blank!")
}

This works:

var vQuery as String
var vResult as String

	vQuery = "/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=TrackV2&XML=<TrackRequest%20USERID=" + @Chr(34) +"176543218" + @Chr(34) + "><TrackID%20ID=" + @Chr(34) + trackingnum + @Chr(34) +"></TrackID></TrackRequest>"
	vResult = @HTTPGetHTML("testing.shippingapis.com", vQuery, "", 80)
WriteLn(vResult)
 

Note that I replaced spaces with %20.

My pleasure, Robert. Let me know if you need a hand with parsing it.