variable an object? if yes, is there a name property?

[curtis m. west]

hello NG

i would like to fill all the "requested fields" of a form into variables.
i do this by hand now:

strUsername = request.form("strName")
strPassword = request.form("strPassword")
..
..

is it possible to do this using a loop?
i have no problem getting the values:

for i = 1 to Request.Form.Count

<myvalue> = Request.Form.Item(i)
next

but how can i fill these values into variables with the corespondig name?
something like:
variable.add
variable.name = Request.Form.Key(i)
variable.value = Request.Form.Item(i)

got the idea?!

tnx for any help!
greetz, q

 

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Why do the variables need to be named? The program does not care what the
variables are called. Ony you, the programmer, care what they are named. You
are wasting your time and potentially adding overhead to your application
for very little reason.

Sure, you can use Execute to dynamically declare a variable,

for each key in request.form
Execute "Dim str" & key
Execute "str" & key & " = " request.form(key)
next

but then you would need to use Execute every time you need to get the values
from these variables, if that is possible ...

You can simply use a multidimensional array and assign the values to array
elements.

dim arForm,i
i=0
redim arForm(1,request.form.count - 1)
for each key in request.form
ar(0,i) = key
ar(1,i) = request.form(key)
next

For a slightly less efficient solution, but easier to use, you can use a
Dictionary object:

dim d,key
set d=server.createobject("Scriptinig.Dictionary")
for each key in request.form
d.add key,request.form(key)
next

For more information go to msdn.microsoft.com/library and look up the
documentation for the Dictionary object.

Bob Barrows