Hehe - I know what you mean about spacing out; there's no need to feel embarrassed, as I am sure most of us have been there at some point in our careers!
In terms of getting rid of the "3;#" - I'm puzzled by something: are you using a People and Groups field to store your Location value, by any chance? Those characters usually appear for this reason; it seems odd that you're using this type of field, given this is a "Location" column? Or is it a case that "Location" actually stores the name of a person at that location, perhaps? ;-)
That all said - I'm not sure, but when you say you need to assign a variable to a "clicked" ID, do you mean something like this:
In terms of getting rid of the "3;#" - I'm puzzled by something: are you using a People and Groups field to store your Location value, by any chance? Those characters usually appear for this reason; it seems odd that you're using this type of field, given this is a "Location" column? Or is it a case that "Location" actually stores the name of a person at that location, perhaps? ;-)
That all said - I'm not sure, but when you say you need to assign a variable to a "clicked" ID, do you mean something like this:
$(xData.responseXML).SPFilterNode("z:row").each(function() {
owsLocation = $(this).attr("ows_Location").slice(3);
owsID = $(this).attr("ows_ID");
});
