how to get character before cursor

I am trying to work out a way of returning the character BEFORE the cursor position using an onkeypress command.

for example:

th|


if the pipeline above is the cursor - when the user types the next letter, I want to be able to get the letter before that. So in this case, the script would return "h"

I've tried using some of the following commands:


var code = iView.document.selection;
var tmp = code.createRange();

tmp.expand("character",1);


but nothing seemed to work.

any help is much appreciated.... thanks :)

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.....Willy

oh god!! It was me that asked the question as well!!!

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

*stupid*

sorry about that!!!! :eek: