Request.Form() - Return Value & Strings

[Martin Speight]

Hello,

In an ASP script Request.Form() returns a value fine.

But I want to be able to chop the returned value up using substring.

Having trouble getting the return into a String variable so I can do this.

eg.

var eDate;
var sDD,sMM,sYYYY,s HH,sMI,sSS;

eDate=Request.F orm("edate");
sDD = eDate.substring (0, 2);
sMM = eDate.substring (3, 5);
sYYYY = eDate.substring (6, 10);

Gives

Error Type:
Microsoft JScript runtime (0x800A01B6)
Object doesn't support this property or method
/sfdw/trw1.asp, line 156

Could someone guide me please.

Martin Speight.

[Martin Honnen]

Re: Request.Form() - Return Value & Strings



Martin Speight wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> In an ASP script Request.Form() returns a value fine.
>
> But I want to be able to chop the returned value up using substring.
>
> Having trouble getting the return into a String variable so I can do this.
>
> eg.
>
> var eDate;
> var sDD,sMM,sYYYY,s HH,sMI,sSS;
>
> eDate=Request.F orm("edate");[/color]

Use
eDate = String(Request. Form("edate"))



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Martin Honnen

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[Martin Speight]

Re: Request.Form() - Return Value & Strings


Thank you for your help

Martin Speight

"Martin Speight" <martinspeight@ onetel.net.uk> wrote in message
news:416a606a@2 12.67.96.135...[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> In an ASP script Request.Form() returns a value fine.
>
> But I want to be able to chop the returned value up using substring.
>
> Having trouble getting the return into a String variable so I can do this.
>
> eg.
>
> var eDate;
> var sDD,sMM,sYYYY,s HH,sMI,sSS;
>
> eDate=Request.F orm("edate");
> sDD = eDate.substring (0, 2);
> sMM = eDate.substring (3, 5);
> sYYYY = eDate.substring (6, 10);
>
> Gives
>
> Error Type:
> Microsoft JScript runtime (0x800A01B6)
> Object doesn't support this property or method
> /sfdw/trw1.asp, line 156
>
> Could someone guide me please.
>
> Martin Speight.
>
>[/color]

[Andrew Urquhart]

Re: Request.Form() - Return Value &amp; Strings

*Martin Honnen* wrote:[color=blue]
> Martin Speight wrote:[color=green]
>> In an ASP script Request.Form() returns a value fine. But I want to
>> be able to chop the returned value up using substring. Having
>> trouble getting the return into a String variable so I can do this.
>> eg.
>> var eDate;
>> var sDD,sMM,sYYYY,s HH,sMI,sSS;
>> eDate=Request.F orm("edate");[/color]
>
> Use
> eDate = String(Request. Form("edate"))[/color]

I tend to prefer:

var eDate = Request.Form("e date");
eDate = eDate.Count ? eDate.Item(1) : "";

It returns a string argument, but also copes with missing POST data and
multiple key values.

Re:[color=blue]
> eDate = String(Request. Form("edate"))[/color]

Casting the form collection to a string where there are multiple values
for the same key would return a CSV string "value1, value2, value3".
Also, if the post data is missing the value the returned value is the
string "undefined" - which can be mistaken for real input content!
--
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