request.form using an array??

I have a form on one page that may have an undetermined amount of elements on it.

on the next page( the one that will write to the database) I need to use request.form to get the values out of my form from page 1.

the elements are named like this
<input name="text1">
<input name="text2">
<input name="text3">

ect......

how do i use an array on page 2 to get the values from this form?

this is my crappy attempt at the syntax.

dim i
dim text(i)
i = 1

for each text in request.form
text(i) = request.form
i = i + 1
next

I know this is wrong but do you get the idea??

I could just 'hard code' this thing but that would be a waist of code. plus i never know if the form will have 2 or 3 or 10 text box's.....


any suggestion???

thanks

Give all textfields the same name ..

<input type="text" name="text"><br>
<input type="text" name="text"><br>
<input type="text" name="text"><br>

.. and on your second page you use the following code to receive the result:

<%

Dim lngI
Dim avntTexts

avntTexts = Split(Request("Text"), ", ")

For lngI = 0 To UBound(avntTexts)
'Do what you want to do with the texts
Response.Write avntTexts(lngI) & "<br>"
Next

%>

Guess that would do the trick!

good idea but i'm not sure that would work.

i need to write the value from the text fields to specific locations in my database.

so they have to be named text1 ,text2 ect... becouse i need to know where in the database they will go, based on the 1,2,3, value of the name.

does that make sense?

maybe.......but I just thought of this, send the number of fields to the second page
using a hidden form field.

so i will know that i have x number of objects(text box's, radio buttons. ect)

then i should be able to say something like this:

x=request.form("hidden")

dim i
i=1
for i = 1 to x
'some code here....
next


i think i can get this to work becouse i will now know how many times to run the loop
and i can still use the names i need to dump it into the database.???

I hope...:)

your code will probably work but i'm not real sure how to make it work the way i need it to..
thanks again

I assume you have some page(call it page1) like this

Page1.asp

Code:

---

<form method="post" action="page2.asp">
<Textarea name="dummytext"></Textarea><br>
<input type="text" name="dummy" value=""><br> 
<input type="text" name="text1" value=""><br>
<input type="text" name="text2" value=""><br>
<input type="text" name="text3" Value=""><br>
<input type="submit" name="sm" Value="Submit">
</form>

---

Then the simplest way to Isolate and get those text1,text2,... values is..

Page2.asp

Code:

---

<%
For Each x In Request.Form
 If Lcase(Left(x,4)) = "text" Then
  Response.write ("The value of " & x & " is " & Request.Form(x) & "<BR>")
 'or do whatever you want with x and request.form(x)
 End If
Next
%>

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yea, that looks about what i was going to do.

it's been a busy weekend...........

thanks