Response.Write Syntax

[JonathanG6SWJ]

Having jumped in the deep end with ASP I'm stuck with a syntax problem (no doubt down to pure ignorance!!)

My Code

Response.Write ("<td width=400 align=center valign=middle style='background-color: rgb(170,189,255)' height=1><font face=Gill Sans><p align=left><%=QArray(Offset)%></p></font></td>")

The error stems from the variable <%QArray(Offset)%> bit of the code but I'm lost

Can anyone help
Thanks in anticipation>
Jonathan

 

[Lothario]

shouldnt that be

<%=QArray("Offset")%>

missing quotes...

-L

 

[JonathanG6SWJ]

L Thanks for hint

Tried this
<%=QArray("Offset")%>
and got error >VBScript compilation error 1033 :
Unterminated string constant

Changed Offset to an integer 2
<%=QArray("2")%> or <%=QArray(2)%>

But still get "Unterminated string constant" error message

I have used '' successfully with Response.Write ("<td width='1%'>"). But I've tried ' in just about every position without success.

I guess the code is trying to %> from being misinterrupted


Jonathan

 

[Lothario]

Try this:

Response.Write ("<td width=400 align=center valign=middle style='background-color: rgb(170,189,255)' height=1><font face=Gill Sans><p align=left>QArray(Offset)</p></font></td>")

-L

 

[Lothario]

oops missed quotes...

-L

 

[JonathanG6SWJ]

Lothario - many thanks

Tried
...align=left>QArray(Offset)</p></font></td>")
and get text QArray(Offset) appear rather than the value from the array.

Tried
a....lign=left>QArray("Offset")</p></font></td>")
get error
VBScript compilation error 1002 :Syntax error

Oh boy sometimes I just hate syntax problems

Jonathan

 

[Lothario]

How about this:

Response.Write "<td width=400 align=center valign=middle style='background-color: rgb(170,189,255)' height=1><font face=Gill Sans><p align=left>&QArray("Offset)&</p></font></td>"

removed braces...
added &

-L

 

[ahmun]

Try:

Response.Write ("<td width=400 align=center valign=middle  style='background-color: rgb(170,189,255)' height=1><font face=Gill Sans><p align=left>[b][blue]" & QArray(Offset) & "[/blue][/b]</p></font></td>")

This is assuming that QArray is an array, and Offset is an integer variable

Earnie Eng

 

[Lothario]

missed one quote...it should be &QArray("Offset")&

-L

 

[trollacious]

How about using double quotes where they're supposed to be:

Response.Write "<td width=[red]""[/red]400[red]""[/red] align=[red]""[/red]center[red]""[/red] valign=[red]""[/red]middle[red]""[/red] style=[red]""[/red]background-color:rgb(170,189,255)[red]""[/red] height=[red]""[/red]1[red]""[/red]><font face=[red]""[/red]Gill Sans[red]""[/red]><p align=[red]""[/red]left[red]""[/red]>" & QArray(Offset) & "</p></font></td>"

Lee

 

[ahmun]

Response.Write simply outputs to the web browser a string. What you seem to be doing here is ouputting three strings:

html code
"<td width=400 align=center valign=middle style='background-color: rgb(170,189,255)' height=1><font face=Gill Sans><p align=left>"

embed the value of QArray at the given offset
QArray(Offset)

html code
"</p></font></td>"

Take care that you surround all your literal strings (the first and third example) with doublequotes and properly concatenate them with the [blue]&[/blue] symbol.



Earnie Eng

 

[Lothario]

Earnie,

I am positive that this would work with the quotes around the QArray(Offset)

Response.Write "<td width=400 align=center valign=middle  style='background-color: rgb(170,189,255)' height=1><font face=Gill Sans><p align=left>& QArray("Offset")& </p></font></td>"

-L

 

[ahmun]

L, that would depend on what QArray is... Thus far I've been assuming it is a variable of type array... if it was a recordset, then, yes, the quotes around "Offset" are necessary.

The problem with the Response.Write would cause an error for the following reason:

Response.Write [green]"<td width=400 align=center valign=middle  style='background-color: rgb(170,189,255)' height=1><font face=Gill Sans><p align=left>& QArray("[/green]Offset[blue]")& </p></font></td>"[/blue]

The string you are passing to the Response.Write command above consists of three parts:
- a string (in green)
- a variable, offset (in black)
- a string (in blue)

The server will throw an error becuase Response.Write expects only one string as its input, and is confused since the three elements aren't tied together with a [blue]&[/blue] symbol.

if QArray is an array, then no quotes are necessary if Offset is a number

if QArray is a recordset, and offset is the name of a field in the recordset, then the quotes around "offset" are necessary

Earnie Eng

 

[ChrisHirst]

well the most efficient way would simply be

<td width="400" align="center" valign="middle" style="background-color: rgb(170,189,255);" height="1">
<font face="Gill Sans">
<p align=left>
<%=QArray(Offset)%>
</p>
</font>
</td>

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[JonathanG6SWJ]

Thanks to all of you for your help.

QArray was an array and Offset was an integer.

Mission accomplished for now -scary - it WORKS!!!!!!!!!

Regards
Jonathan.

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[ahmun]

Right on! I'm glad you got it working!

I agree with Chris... rather than Response.Writing all your HTML, a more efficient way (and more maintainable if you use dreamweaver or some html editor) to do things is leave your HTML code outside the ASP Block, and use the

<%= %> block to insert your ASP variables into html...

I just took your code example and ran with it instead of cleaning things up...

Earnie Eng