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- <%
- ' Declare our variables... always good practice!
- Dim intExperience ' A variable that will contain a #
- ' representing a unit of time of
- ' experience the user has doing
- ' something.
-
- Dim strMessage ' The message we output based on
- ' this hypothetical user doing
- ' something for a given amount of time.
-
- ' Just so that I don't go crazy with all these vague
- ' somethings and units... lets say the number represents
- ' the number of months the user has been writing ASP code.
-
- ' So now we need to go about getting our number somehow...
- ' since this part really has nothing to do with this sample,
- ' I'll just read in a # off the querystring and default it
- ' to 12 months (just so it's not a boring 0) if nothing is
- ' input.
-
- ' Read in our value
- intExperience = Request.QueryString("months")
-
- ' Check if we got a value
- If intExperience <> "" Then
- ' If we did then we convert it to an integer.
- ' This could cause a type mismatch, but I'm omitting
- ' error checking for brevity. (Too late... I know!)
- intExperience = CInt(intExperience)
- Else
- ' Otherwise default to our hypothetical 12
- intExperience = 12
- End If
-
- ' Now to the real sample code.
- ' It starts out like any other If Then, but notice there's
- ' no space between the Else and the next If. If there were,
- ' this code would take on an entirely different meaning and
- ' actually wouldn't work! It would instead give us a
- ' VBScript compilation error because we'd be missing the
- ' matching End If.
- If intExperience < 1 Then
- strMessage = "newbie"
- ElseIf 1 <= intExperience And intExperience < 2 Then
- strMessage = "novice"
- ElseIf 2 <= intExperience And intExperience < 6 Then
- strMessage = "beginner"
- ElseIf 6 <= intExperience And intExperience < 12 Then
- strMessage = "dangerous"
- ElseIf 12 <= intExperience And intExperience < 24 Then
- strMessage = "intermediate"
- ElseIf 24 <= intExperience Then
- strMessage = "advanced"
- End If
-
- ' On a side note... I've always liked this type of syntax
- ' better, but it doesn't work like you'd expect it to in
- ' VBScript. Worse yet, it doesn't throw an error either!
- ' It just always processes the If Then case.
- ' Can you figure out why? ;)
- '
- 'Dim x
- 'x = 5
- 'If 3 < x < 7 Then
- ' Response.Write "X is between 3 and 7."
- 'End If
-
- ' All that's left is for the script to do something with the
- ' value it calculated so I'll use it in a sentence below.
- %>
- <p>
- This script has determined that you are an ASP developer
- with a <%= strMessage %> level of experience.
- </p>
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