Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03f6'

121 · September 20th, 2009, 11:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Old Pedant

*THOSE* lines will work. But the ones do *NOT* have "Response.Write" in them won't.

There's not other way in VBS to accomplish

Code:

Execute ( Mid(str,1,a2-1))

, for example.

I don't see how anybody can help you debug this without being able to see what is in str when Function writeContent(str) is called.

Were I in your shoes, I would want to SHOOT the person who wrote this code.

i **************** the code writer before asking him to resolve issue... how do i go about sorting this issue??

Old Pedant · September 20th, 2009, 01:48 PM

Well, I'd start by adding in DEBUG code.

For starters, replace the line:

Code:

 	Execute ( Mid(str,1,a2-1))

(and any other Execute lines) with

Code:

        Response.Write "<HR><h2>EXECUTE:</h2>" & Mid(str,1,a2-1) & "<HR>"

or similar. The idea being to dump out to the screen all those things that would be Execute'd, to find out just what he really is trying to do.

But I'll tell you now, if you aren't a pretty experienced ASP coder, this is going to take you some time to decipher and fix. If you dumped it in my lap--and I consider myself to be a really advanced ASP coder--I wouldn't even give you an estimate of time-to-fix until I'd been able to do some initial debugging, trying to figure out just what the code is doing.

I'd almost surely try to talk you into throwing out the code and starting over with at least this part of it. The *need* to use Execute in a page tells me there was probably a fundamental flaw in the initial design.

Are there exceptions? Of course. But they are so rare that they are unlikely to apply in this case. Again, without diagnosing what's going on now, I couldn't tell.