VBScript InStr

Abhishek Reddy posted this at 08:18 — 17th September 2001.

Joined: Jul 2001

hey,

ive done the following in visual basic, but, for some reason, it doesn't seem to work in VBScript (client side).

basically, i want to validate a string to see if it contains spaces (after trimming). if it does, i want to split a string into an array where there are spaces, and manipulate that further.

i used:
strVar = InStr(" ",strQuery)

that returns 0 for the " " (space), and 0 for any other character i use, if they occur among other characters. if any character apart from the space is at the beginning of the string, it still returns 0. it only returns 1 if the query is entirely the character.

i havent't come up to the split() yet, but i hope i dont have similar problems

help is much appreciated

detox posted this at 14:21 — 17th September 2001.

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Joined: Feb 2001

this bit of code is from irt.org it was useful to me to help get my head around it

<?php
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> \"VBScript Demo\"</TITLE>
&lt;script LANGUAGE=\"VBScript\"&gt;
<!--

Dim MyString, SpaceCount, Length, Position
MyString = \"This is my test  string\"
SpaceCount = 0
Length = Len(MyString)

For Position = 1 to Length
If Mid(MyString, Position, 1) = Chr(32) Then ' Chr(32) equals the space character.
SpaceCount = SpaceCount + 1
End If
Next 
MsgBox SpaceCount

'SpaceCount would equal 4
-->
&lt;/script&gt;
</HEAD></BODY></HTML>
?>

NOTE the code editor always leaves off a couple of end tags.... If you are missing some there should just be a closing body and html tag

also try looking at devguru, this remains on of the best sites for info, try this dev guru

Mark Hensler posted this at 15:38 — 17th September 2001.

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Joined: Aug 2000

As far as I know, only IE will run VBScript client side.

detox posted this at 22:40 — 17th September 2001.

They have: 571 posts

Joined: Feb 2001

Mark is right, if you're trying to get this crossbrowser then you will have probs.