Newbie ASP question
Hi,
Once again I have a simple VBscript question...
How do I check if a variable/string contains a special value; in javascript its something like
if indexof(variablename, "forum") > 1 {}
etc...
But whats the parameters for this in ASP?
I have an ASP book, but it doesn't cover all these small gadgets... I will buy a new one sometime soon...
Hope you can help me.
Thank you
¨Casper
Peter J. Boettcher posted this at 16:04 — 5th July 2001.
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Your looking for the InStr function:
If InStr(1,variablename, "forum") > 1 Then
'whatever
Else
'whatever
End If
BTW You can write your ASP pages in Javascript if you're more comfortable with it.
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hotcut posted this at 12:21 — 7th July 2001.
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Thanks, works prefectly.
One question though, the first parameter (1). what is that for? Can you explain please?
Thanks
Casper
Peter J. Boettcher posted this at 15:12 — 7th July 2001.
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The 1 parameter tells InStr to start searching the string at the first character (beginning of string), if we changed it to 5 then it would start it's search on the 5th character.
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