Match "is not a function"

[jtoddv]

Has worked for over a year, but today it seems to have stopped working. I see that the last update of the extension was on Sept 10th, 2022 (v5.2) running in Thunderbird 102.2.2 (64-bit).

I have a Quicktext script GetName that used str.match(regex) to parse out the name from a submitted email. This same script now errors out with the following:

There was an error in your Quicktext script: GetName TypeError: paragraph.match is not a function Line 4: let found = paragraph.match(regex);

Here is the code of the two functions used to get the name:

GetMailBody Script:

var editor = this.mWindow.gMsgCompose.editor;
var text = editor.outputToString('text/plain', 8);
return text;

GetName Script:

const paragraph = this.mQuicktext.get_script(["GetMailBody"]);
const regex = /Name:\s(.*?)\s/smi;
let found = paragraph.match(regex);
return found[1];

Any help on why this stopped working would be appreciated.

[SamuelPlentz]

This is related to: #271 and #320

Try to add await like this:

GetMailBody Script

var editor = this.mWindow.gMsgCompose.editor;
var text = editor.outputToString('text/plain', 8);
return text;

GetName Script

const paragraph = await this.mQuicktext.get_script(["GetMailBody"]);
const regex = /Name:\s(.*?)\s/smi;
let found = paragraph.match(regex);
if (found == null) return "no match found"; // aditionally i would add a line like that
return found[1];

[SamuelPlentz]

IMO close.

[jtoddv]

Thanks, Samuel! Worked.