I need to use a fore slash for intersection searches, which do not seem to be supported so I am working around it with a regular expression search and replace to use an intersection connector that I know will work. Below is the code that I am using, when the user hits the enter key the regular expression function runs, and replaces the / with &. That result is assigned to a bindable variable which is used by the Geocoder. When I run this in debug mode, everything works...the variable shows the / intersection search has been converted to an &...however it seems that the original search that has the / is being sent to the rest endpoint. I can find no reference to the search text that includes that /...so I'm not sure how it is being sent. What am I missing here? public function searchPattern():void {
var pattern:RegExp = /(\)/g;
var pattern1:RegExp = /(\/)/g;
if (geocoder.text.search(pattern) > -1){
geocoder.text = geocoder.text.replace(pattern, " & ");
geotxt = geocoder.text;
return;
}
if (geocoder.text.search(pattern1) > -1){
geocoder.text = geocoder.text.replace(pattern1, " & ");
geotxt = geocoder.text;
trace (geotxt);
return;
}
}
<esri:Geocoder id="geocoder" text="{geotxt}" enter="searchPattern()" fault="geocoder_faultHandler(event)" x="55" y="10" width="300" height="30" autoComplete="false" map="{map}" mapServices="{mapServ}" minCharacters="2"
resultSelected="geocoder1_resultSelectedHandler(event)"
url="http://{URL1}/arcgis/rest/services/compositeMay2013/GeocodeServer"
/>
