Problems writing percent character

[Simon Wigzell]

I have written an asp funciton to write a 301 redirect. It gets the file
name and the new desitination as arguments. I am doing this for hundreds of
files so a script is more accurate than doing it manually and much faster, I
thought. Problem is it chokes on the line:

FileText = FileText & "%>" & vbcrlf

Error message is:
Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0409'

Unterminated string constant

/NewTest/TestRedirects/WriteRedirects.asp, line 58

FileText = FileText & "
-----------------------^It doesn't have any problem with FileText = FileText
& "<%" & vbcrlf

I've tried escaping it:

FileText = FileText & "\%>" & vbcrlf

but it chokes on the "\"

How can I append "%>" to a string????

Full function follows:

function CreateRedirect(Filename,Destination)
FullFilename = server.mappath(Filename)
set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set file = fs.OpenTextFile(FullFilename, 2, true)
FileText = ""
FileText = FileText & "<%" & vbcrlf
FileText = FileText & "Response.Status = ""301 Moved Permanently""" &
vbcrlf
FileText = FileText & "Response.addheader ""Location"",""" & Destination
& """ & vbcrlf
FileText = FileText & "Response.End" & vbcrlf
FileText = FileText & "%>" & vbcrlf
file.WriteLine(FileText)
file.Close()
set fs = nothing
end function

 

[Gérard Leclercq]

Try with
What is the content of FileText ?

FileText = FileText & Chr(37) & ">" & vbcrlf

 

[Simon Wigzell]

Try with
What is the content of FileText ?

FileText = FileText & Chr(37) & ">" & vbcrlf

Thanks! That solved it.

 

[Evertjan.]

Gérard Leclercq wrote on 16 feb 2005 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

Try with
What is the content of FileText ?

FileText = FileText & Chr(37) & ">" & vbcrlf

FileText = FileText & "%" & ">" & vbcrlf

Why can I never remember them ascii numbers?
'cause they are American?

 

[Dave Anderson]

Why can I never remember them ascii numbers?
'cause they are American?

This American uses Arabic numerals for expressing ASCII numbers.



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[Roland Hall]

in message
: Evertjan. wrote:
: > Why can I never remember them ascii numbers?
: > 'cause they are American?
:
: This American uses Arabic numerals for expressing ASCII numbers.

I'm using Italian (Roman) numerals with a lemon twist for expressing ASCII
numbers in my champagne cocktail. (O:=

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