[Javascript] Conversions of variant type...better explanation...

[TomMallard]

Use the filesystemobject to read the files, if the data is binary, we all
guessing it's a Word doc and then you won't be able to read it this way at
all, you'll need to create an instance of word on the server and then you
can read them. VBA is best for this. Other proprietary files can't be read
as binary either without the object to decode them...

Why not use Index Server?

Also, you should ask this on an Active Server Pages list, it's a better
forum for this topic.

tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlos" <carlos at unica.cu>
To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 7:06 AM
Subject: [Javascript] Conversions of variant type...better explanation...


RE: [Javascript] Functions arguments...Well, sorry for my hurriness...

I'll try to explain the problem again, according to what you said to me,
let's see...

I'm trying to perform a search in a directory, this search is inside files,
but there are text files and binary files, so what did I do, I treated all
the files as binary files and tried to read its contents, but the problem is
that when I use the ADODB.Stream.Read(numBytes) function, it returns a
variant type (that's what all references of ASP say) and I thought that I
could perform the search very well if I converted the variant type to a
string data type...but...the variant type doesn't seem to appear "as is" in
my Javascript's tutorial...so, my question is related to that conversion,
but maybe anyone owns a better way of doing this search, so I accept it
too...

I'm interested in this conversion, cause maybe (if the conversion variant -
string is possible) you can convert any variant type to a byte or an
integer.

I guess that,  this is my real problem...