Including a file dynamically

I expect this has been asked 26.4 times already but...

I am passing a page name to an ASP in the request string. I want to then include it using <!-- #include file='filename' -->

(fName is the variable holding the page name)

if I do<%
response.write "<!-- #include file='" & fName & "' -->"%>
the include string gets written correctly but the page doesn't get included.

if I do
<!-- #include file='<%=fName%>'-->


it says can find file <%=fName%>

Try:
<!-- #include file='<%=Request.QueryString("fName")%>'-->

Nope!
That doesn't work either :(

thanks

how come u using double quotes?

The include gets processed before the page gets sent to the ASP engine, that's why its not working. I did a quick search on some asp sites, but I didn't see an exact workaround to what you need. You could use includes in if statements outside of the asp tags, but that causes all includes to be inserted.

I figured that was the problem.

What I've done now is include a seperate asp file with a select statment in to write out the correct include string

Try including all files that you may need.

EDIT \/
..eh What? Oh, you've solved your problem.

JoshT is right, 'includes' gets parsed before ASP. If you want true 'dynamic includes', you wouldn't even use the #include statement. You'd have to use the filesystem object, read the contents of a file, then spit it out. I've made a template using it that way. There's an article on www.asp101.com about this topic. Just search it on their site.