[Greasemonkey] Getting currently signed on user without parsing html or dom

[Jonas Galvez]

daddydave wrote:
> var usermatch = new Array();
> usermatch = ptext.nodeValue.match('Signed in as ([^ |]* |)');
> [...]
> (By the way, can I just say "var usermatch;" instead of  "var
> usermatch = new Array();" ? It seems to work either way)

You don't have to declare a variable before assigning a value to it.
Also, String.match() creates the array for you. There's no logic in
trying to create it before. Whatever value usermatch may have will be
replaced by match()'s return value. In your code, usermatch[] is
initially completely unused. It's there just to waste memory.

var usermatch = ptext.nodeValue.match...

That should suffice.

--Jonas Galvez