eval and function calling

Hi All,

I'm a newbie to javascript and was hoping for some help. The goal is to add some text to a textarea via an input button. So my JS:
//mainInput = name of textarea
function addtext(formname,reqText) {
insert = true;
if (insert)
{
eval(formname + '.' + mainInput + '.value += \"<\"' + reqText + '\">\";');
}
eval(theform + '.' + mainInput + '.focus();');
}

I recieve an Expected ";" error from IE for the eval line. The strange thing is if i move the semi-colon to -1 of the closing eval bracket i.e. eval('whatever'; I recieve a different error saying Object Expected, referring to the line with the input button which calls function addtext:
<input type="button" value="Harvey" onclick="addText(this.form,'harvey')" title="Harvey" accesskey="h">

...even stranger, is that if i do move the semi-colon to left of the closing eval bracket, no alert statements are executed??

does anyone have any ideas, i will be very grateful...

Thanks All,

Harvey

no worries...

...just realised how stupid i was being, i didn't have the formname in the quotes, due to it being an object and not a string....

cheers anyway...


Harvey