Error: Type mismatch

[marcela24]

I have a input type=text name=year in a form

Then I do:
year = Request.Form( "year" )
and test it:
if not year then

Then the program returns Type mismatch: 'year'

what can i do to correct it?

 

[onpnt]

year may be a restricted word

other then that I would do a test such as
if year = "" then

if year then
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[scoplan]

Use a variable named aYear or sYear or even better form_year so you know what it is and where it should be coming from. This also avoids the reserved word conflict problem.

What I often do is:
year = Request.Form( "year" ) & ""

before the test
if year = "" then doSomething end if

This eliminates the problem of a null value for year in the form.