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biry

biry

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Nov 5, 2004
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Hi, i'm trying out the object of SOFTWING.ASPtear

I got it working but was wondering if it were possible to display the torn page without displaying certain parts of the page, i guess basically i was wondering if the page can be reformatted to a degree

I've been trying to find some sort of refernces to start me on my way but am having no luck.
 
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Yes it is perfectly possible however it may be quite difficult to implement complicated formatting changes.
Once ASPTear has retrieved the page it is simply a string object. Therefore you can use any string manipulation functions you wish to, in essence, rewrite the html before it is written to the client.

I don't think you will ever find any references for this sort of thing as every single implementation will be completely different.
 
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what do you mean by string manipulation functions, can you give an example?
 
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sorry, i'm lost and new at this. lets say the html written in the sting to the client displays the page, how could i have it omit the section wich follows this:
so in the html that is written for the client, how can i have it so that the information at the begining is omitted, so the client doesn't see it:

the part to omit is after this:
</head>

<body link="#333366" vlink="#666699">
<div align="center">

And this is the part i wish to omit:
Code: 
<FORM NAME="bcform" METHOD="get" ACTION="/custom/painewebber-com/nav.asp">

		<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="o_symb" VALUE="IBM">
		<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="424" BGCOLOR="#000066">
			<TR><TD COLSPAN=4 ><img src="images/trans.gif" height=6 WIDTH="424" border=0 alt=""></TD></TR>
			<TR>
				<TD><IMG SRC="images/trans.gif" WIDTH="10"></TD>	
				<TD NOWRAP><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" SIZE="-4" COLOR="#FFFFFF">Select From</font><br>
					<SELECT NAME="service">
						<OPTION VALUE="1">Quote & News
						<OPTION VALUE="2">Interactive Charting
						<OPTION VALUE="3">MultiQuote
						<OPTION VALUE="4">Market Summary
						<OPTION VALUE="5">CBS MarketWatch News
						<OPTION VALUE="7" SELECTED>Comtex News
					</SELECT>
				</TD>
				<TD NOWRAP >
					<FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" SIZE="-4" COLOR="#FFFFFF">Enter Symbol or Keywords:</FONT><br>
					<input type="text" name="symb" VALUE="IBM" size="20" maxlength="30">  
				</TD>
				<TD VALIGN="TOP" NOWRAP ><FONT FACE="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" SIZE="-4" COLOR="#666666"><br></FONT><input type="submit" value="Show">  </TD>		
			</TR>
			<TR><TD COLSPAN=4 ><img src="images/trans.gif" height=6 WIDTH="424" border=0 alt=""></TD></TR>
			<tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><td align=right valign=top colspan=4><a href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.bigcharts.com"><img[/URL] src="images/provided-by-bc.gif" width=161 height=16 alt="Provided by BigCharts.com" border=0></a></td></tr>
<TR><TD COLSPAN=4 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><img src="images/trans.gif" height=15 WIDTH="424" border=0 alt=""></TD></TR>
			<TR><TD COLSPAN=4 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"><img src="images/trans.gif" height=15 WIDTH="424" border=0 alt=""></TD></TR>
			
		</TABLE>
 
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String manipulation functions are like: Left(), Mid(), Right(), InStr(), InStrRev, Trim(), LTrim(), etc etc

VB is pretty handy with string manipulation.

Suppose you wanted to remove the first form in an HTML page that was stored in a string.

Dim startPosition, endTagStart, endPosition
startPosition = InStr(strHTMLPage, "<FORM")
endTagStart = Instr(strHTMLPage, "</FORM")
endPosition = Instr(strHTMLPage, ">", endTagStart)

strHTMLPage = Left(strHTMLPage, startPosition -1) & Mid(strHTMLPage, endPosition +1)

Response.Write strHTMLPage
 
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ok i think i get this kinda using

Dim sFileExt
sFileExt = strRetval
sFileExt = Left(strRetval, 3667)
Response.Write sFileExt

i have display the last 3667 character in the string, How could i eliminate the first 3667 characters in the string?

thanks
 
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If you just want to cut off the first 3667 characters and then display the rest of the string then use the Mid() function.
 
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sFileExt = mid(strRetval, 3668)

That will remove the first 3667 characters
 
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