RE: unterminated string constant error
by "Cyanide _7" <leo7278(at)hotmail.com>
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Tue, 08 Feb 2000 23:00:33 CST |
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Chucke(at)captura.com |
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hwg-languages(at)hwg.org |
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I don't think this is possible. other include statements that were suggested
(css, js) are client-side. i do believe <!--#include is server-side and
cannot be done with js. by the same token, js cannot write asp. i wonder,
however, if asp can write this being that both are server-side...hmmmm. -
Cyanide_7
>Thanks to everyone for their responses. I tried subsituting a variable for
>"<" as Stephen Thorin suggested, but that didn't work. I also checked the
>carriage returns as Peter Newton suggested, but they were fine. Peter
>Benoit
>asked if I really could write an include statement with Javascript. I still
>don't know, but I do know you can write other "include" type statements,
>such as CSS and javascript file links.
>
>I decided to go to using ASP for the form, since I'm on an IIS server (not
>my choice of server). In this way, I can set a variable in the link to the
>form (eg, www.mysite.com/myform.asp?formtype=info) and then use Case to
>display the correct include statement like this:
>
><%
>Select Case Request("formtype")
>Case "info" %>
><!--#include virtual='/includes/include1.html'-->
><% Case "ui_reg" %>
><!--#include virtual='/includes/include2.html'-->
><% Case Else %>
><!--#include virtual='/includes/include1.html'-->
><%
>End Select
>%>
>
>This is also working in the remainder of the form to customize headings and
>explanatory text. So I'm happy, I guess.
>
>---------------------------------------------------------
>Chuck Evans
>Web Marketing Manager
>Captura Software, Inc.
>(425) 424-1155
>chucke(at)captura.com
>www.captura.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Chuck Evans [SMTP:Chucke(at)captura.com]
> > >
> > > I have the following javascript (shown below). In every case, when I
>try
> > > to
> > > run it, I get an error "Line 26, Char 68, Unterminated string
>constant".
> > > That indicates the character "a" in the word "virtual" in the very
>first
> > > if/then statement. If I've coded the script right (which I obviously
> > > haven't) then it should be executing the second if/then, not the
>first.
> > > I have tried every combination of double and single quotes on the
>string
> > > to be written but can't get past this error.
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