Select Case

[chenko]

Is there an Easy way to do this in ASP? Ive tried but I get a "Expected statement " error

Select Case iNumber
   Case 0 to 5
   Case 6 to 10
   Case 11 to 20
   Case 21 to 40
   Case 41 to 70
   Case 71 to 99
   Case > 99
   Case Else
End Select

Cheers!

[CiberTHuG]

Well, you could do this with a series of if/elsif, but to do it with a select switch...

First off, I assume you are using VBScript. Mind you ASP is not a language, it is a server-side technology. You could use JScript (among many others). I would suggest looking into JScript to see if the switch structure is more flexible.

In VBScript, I would suggest trying Case (> x and < y). It may not work, but I'm sure to won't. To implies that it is going to step through a series, as in a for loop.

Anyway, these aren't the answers, just a step toward finding them.

[csammis]

CiberTHuG, are you sure about "X To Y" not working? It works in regular VB, and if it's VBScript in question, the syntax is pretty much the same for logic structures

[CiberTHuG]

This this code...

<%
  x = 20
  Select Case x
    Case 0 to 5
      Response.Write("0 to 5")
    Case 6 to 10
      Response.Write("6 to 10")
    Case 11 to 20
      Response.Write("11 to 20")
    Case 21 to 40
      Response.Write("21 to 40")
    Case 41 to 70
      Response.Write("41 to 70")
    Case > 71
      Response.Write("> 71")
    Case Else
      Response.Write("0 to 5")
  End Select
%>

I get this error

Microsoft VBScript compilation (0x800A0400)
Expected statement
/test/case.asp, line 4, column 7
Case 0 to 5
------^

I'll look into it some more.

[CiberTHuG]

In the meantime...

if (x > 0 and x < 6) then
  'do something
elseif(x > 5 and x < 11) then
  'do something
else
  'do something
end if

[harsoni]

even i had the same problem then finally we used IF statements..

Sonia:

[Al Smith]

Hi,
It's the to statement that ASP doesn't like.
The following does work but it might be rather cumbersome if your case statements have a large range.

<%
  x = 20
  Select Case x
    Case 0,1,2,3,4,5
      Response.Write("0 to 5")
    Case 6,7,8,9,10
      Response.Write("6 to 10")
    Case 11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20
      Response.Write("11 to 20")
    Case 21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40
      Response.Write("21 to 40")
    'Case 41 to 70
    '  Response.Write("41 to 70")
    'Case > 71
    '  Response.Write("> 71")
    'Case Else
    '  Response.Write("0 to 5")
  End Select
%>

Al.

[CiberTHuG]

Yeah, Chenko, its messy. The if/elseif will work better. You could always move on to a better language: JScript, Perl....