[thelist] [SPAM] classic asp SPLIT()

[Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com)]

		   Anthony's right; it's talking about the outer parentheses, not the inner parentheses.  If you don't assign the result to something, it assumes you're calling a Sub rather than a Function.

Peter

				From: "Anthony Baratta" anthony at baratta.com

Obvious question first: Where is your array to feed the results into?

e.g.

aryResult = Split(datastring,chr(255))

-----Original message-----
From: Brian Cummiskey Brian at hondaswap.com

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm familiar with using the split function, but i've never had to do it 
> on an ascii character before.
> 
> I am given a datastring that looks something like this:
> 
> Code:
> 
> lid123456vid7890
> 
> 
> 
> What i thought would be a simple,
> 
> Code:
> 
> Split(datastring,chr(255))
> 
> 
> 
> throws me an error:
> 
> Quote:
> Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0414'
> 
> Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub
> 
> page.asp, line 57
> 
> Split(datastring,chr(255))
> 
> 
> 
> the  character is asci code chr(255). If I cannot use parenthesis in 
> there, how am I to split this off?
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks