[Javascript] displaying in a textarea field a text file read from the server

Sun Mar 3 08:42:45 CST 2002

hi:

O.S.: Windows 2000 Pro
Web server: IIS 5
Browsers: IE 5.0 & NN 6.2.1

i read a text file (created with NotePad) from the server using ASP to 
later show its content in a TEXTAREA form field. it works fine as far as 
the file doesn't contains car return/line feed chars; if they are 
present, this error appears:

Error: unterminated string literal

fileForm.tArea.value = "Testing file read.

txt file
========
Testing file read.

Third line.

ASP page
=======
<%
   Const ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2
   Dim fso, f, fContents
   Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
   Set f = 
fso.OpenTextFile("c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\dwud\filesystemobject\test.txt", 
ForReading)
   fContents = f.ReadAll
   f.Close
%>
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>FSO - Read/Write</TITLE>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</HEAD>

<BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<FORM name="fileForm" method="post" action="">
  <P align="center">
    <TEXTAREA name="tArea" cols="80" rows="20"></TEXTAREA>
  </P>
  <P align="center">
    <INPUT type="button" name="Button" value="Write">
  </P>
</FORM>
<SCRIPT>
    fileForm.tArea.value = "<%= fContents %>"
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>

TIA,
-- 
Saludos,

Manuel Socarrás Reyes <msocarras at terra.es>
Barcelona. Spain