newsbie if-then-else question

[Barton]

Hello,

I just made to move to ASP. I have been developing in PHP the past two
years. I must say that I'm a little disappointed in the quality of the
beginners tutorials. They don't go further then teaching

<% Response.Write("Hello World") %>

I also lack an official website with all ASP commands explained, like
you have php.net for PHP.

Anyway, here I go, this piece of code contains a bug:

If (lang2 = "DUT" OR lang2 = "dut" OR lang2 = "NL" OR lang2 = "nl")
Then (
left = "column_left_nl.html"
top = "top_nl.html"
)
Else if (lang2 = "FRE" OR lang2 = "fre" OR lang2 = "FR" OR
lang2 = "fr") Then (
left = "column_left_fr.html"
top = "top_fr.html"
)
Else if (lang2 = "ENG" OR lang2 = "eng") Then (
left = "column_left_eng.html"
top = "top_eng.html"
)
End If

There is no tutorial that explains me whether to use brackets or not
and which kind of brackets I should use. So, do I need all these
brackets?

And why is:

lang = "DUT"

a declaration, and a couple lines further a comparison?
I'm really confused, please help me out.

Greetz,

Barton

 

[Frank Drebin]

You might be happier... much happier, with C#. It's a much more
specific/hard-lined language where there aren't as many assumptions, like in
VB. With ASP.NET, you can write your app in any CLR-compliant language
(VB.NET, C#, J#,managed C++?).. here's that code in C#:

if (lang2 == "DUT" || lang2 == "dut" || lang2 == "NL" || lang2 == "nl")
{
left = "column_left_nl.html";
top = "top_nl.html";
}
elseif (lang2 == "FRE" || lang2 == "fre" || lang2 == "FR" || lang2 == "fr")
{
left = "column_left_fr.html";
top = "top_fr.html";
}
elseif (lang2 == "ENG"
|| lang2 == "eng")
{
left = "column_left_eng.html";
top = "top_eng.html";
}

There are no assumptions. = is for assignment, == is for comparison..
semi-colons terminate a line, etc, etc...

 

[Arsalan]

Go to http://codemaster.digitalrice.com and check the ASP section for
beginners tutorial

 

[MS News \(MS ILM\)]

I use them to be more clear

 

[Barton]

I'm not impressed with the Tutorials. They are too basic! And they
don't tell anything about the brackets, about ISSET commands etc.

Greetz,

Barton

 

[Barton]

Well, this sounds much more familiar to me!
I'm used to "=" and "==" and also the ";" for ending lines.

But does this C# run at every normal ISS server?

Greetz,

Barton

 

[Severin]

I would write the code as such

If lang2.ToUpper = "DUT" OR lang2.ToUpper = "NL" Then
left = "column_left_nl.html"
top = "top_nl.html"
ElseIf lang2.ToUpper = "FRE" OR lang2.ToUpper = "FR" Then
left = "column_left_fr.html"
top = "top_fr.html"
ElseIf lang2.ToUpper = "ENG" Then
left = "column_left_eng.html"
top = "top_eng.html"
End If


This is very readable to me, but then I learned .NET using VB not C#

Severin

 

[Barton]

I get the error: Object required: 'DUT'

Seems I first need to make an object of DUT?
How do I do this?

Greetz,

Barton

 

[S. Justin Gengo]

Severin,

A Select Case statement might be more readable.

Select Case lang2.ToUpper
Case "DUT", "NL"
left = "column_left_nl.html"
top = "top_nl.html"

Case "FRE", "FR"
left = "column_left_fr.html"
top = "top_fr.html"

Case "ENG"
left = "column_left_eng.html"
top = "top_eng.html"

End Select
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S. Justin Gengo, MCP
Web Developer

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