[BNM] 2 questions of ASP/VB

[Glenn Williams]

You can probably use Eval or Execute to do this. With Execute you can
execute statements held in a string. It's a while since I did any ASP so
can't remember how eval works but I think it's similar.
Not quite sure I understand your second one but there are many commands to
truncate strings in many wonderful ways.
HTH
Glenn
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Dowdell [mailto:contact at stridebird.com] 
Sent: 10 April 2006 18:00
To: bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org
Subject: [BNM] 2 questions of ASP/VB


I am programming a little with  ASP/VB[*] for a change, and I have a 
couple of questions for the ASP heads on the list.

1. Does VB support variable variables,  ie using the value of a variable 
as a variable name?

2. With a ASP/VB to Access via ADO connection setup, is it possible to 
get the server to auto-truncate the input value of a field - so that if 
a field is set up as say text / 50 characters long, and the input is 
longer, it just truncates to 50 chars rather than throw an error?  Or do 
I have to truncate separately before writing to the database?

Much obliged, ta ta

Pete

[*] not .NET mind, classic ASP

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