ASP Select Case Syntax Error (Case Condition)

[makinha]

Hello, I am getting a syntax error
Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0400'

Expected statement
line 49
Case 164 To 269
---------------^
(The error references to keyword "To")

Is there anyone know if ASP support the keyword "To"? or it use another keyword to have the case condition in range? I know I can use a comma to form a multi condition, like "Case 164, 165, 166, 167", etc. However, I need a range from 164 to 269 which is alot. Any idea? Thanks.

My code posted as below:
=============== ========
Select Case number
Case 161
result = "a"
Case 162
result = "b"
Case 164 To 269
result = "c"
Case 276 To 314
result = "d"
Case Else
result = "e"
End Select

[jhardman]

I would have thought VBScript used the exact same syntax for this type of thing as VB. I'll post in the VB forum to see if anyone there sees a problem I'm missing. If you only have 5 or six cases and you can't get the select to work, you might consider trying an unwieldy if...else statement. It will work even though it will be tiresome.

Jared

[Killer42]

I have recently been surprised to find that VB.Net doesn't seem to support the To keyword, so maybe ASP doesn't either. It certainly does look that way, to judge from your post. After all, how could you possibly have it wrong? Unless you've got some weird characters in there that we can't see, or some Unicode characters that just look like "To". But come on, how likely is that?

One slightly ugly workaround might be to use this syntax (not tested)...

Case Is >= 164 And <= 269

I've probably got that wrong, but you get the idea - try manipulating the Is clause to get around the problem. If all else fails, does ASP support the ElseIf statement? It's very useful for making an extended IF structure that's almost as clean as Select Case, but has the advantage of allowing complex tests. For example, to rewrite your Select Case...

[CODE=vb]If number = 161 Then
result = "a"
ElseIf number = 162 Then
result = "b"
ElseIf number >= 164 And number <= 269 Then
result = "c"
ElseIf number >= 276 And number <= 314 Then
result = "d"
Else
result = "e"
End If[/CODE]

[ilearneditonline]

One slightly ugly workaround might be to use this syntax (not tested)...

Case Is >= 164 And <= 269

Tested this and it doesn't work. The only why I know of is....
[CODE=asp]
Select Case number
Case 161
result = "a"
Case 162
result = "b"
Case 164, 165, 166, ...
result = "c"
Case 276, 277, 278, ...
result = "d"
Case Else
result = "e"
End Select
[/CODE]

[Killer42]

Tested this and it doesn't work. ...

Bummer!

Have you tried ElseIf? It's almost as compact and easy to read, and (if it is supported) wouldn't require huge lists of values.