[thelist] Response.Write versus varHTML = varHTML & "..."

[Howard Cheng]

OK I think I had misunderstood your original intent. Let me see if I 
understand what you were doing -- getting a large result set and creating a 
big giant string to output later, along the lines of:

[%
strHTML = ""
While Not RS.EOF
         strHTML = strHTML & RS("field") & "<br>"
         RS.MoveNext
Wend
%]

[html]
[%= strHTML %]
[/html]

Right?

In which case, you pretty much are screwed, because as you have found out, 
ASP/VBScript really sucks at string management.

You'll have to output your HTML smack-dab in the middle of the page. The 
whole ASP framework is designed so you can have jump in and out of 
server-side code so I suppose that's how they expect you to do it, 
intermixing your logic and presentation.

At 09:50 AM 1/11/2002 -0800, Anthony Baratta wrote:
This doesn't solve the problem with string concatenation/storage. Where do 
you store the HTML text before you get to the HTML?

>My former format is not any different from Joshua's/your's. It's doing all 
>the calc's up front too. I've just functionalized as much as I can and 
>move the functions to the bottom, for code readability.

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