Examining my variable nulls it

[DanWalter]

Hello:

There must be something I don't understand about the timing or order of parsing the javascript code and merging it back with the static HTML. I have a variable that is declared and filled in the server side code, before the HTML declarations begin. A little while down the HTML page, I have a call to server side code. After this code runs, the variable is now null!

Here is my sample code and output.

Code (in HTML page - the variable strComment1 is declared and filled by a database lookup in server side code.):

<%Response.Write("The comment is :" + strComment1 + ": and now it is :" + strComment1 +":");%>

Output:
The comment is :this is a comment: and now it is :null:

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that observing a phenomenon changes the phenomenon, but this is ridiculous! I have heard of these things referred to as a "Heisenbug" in programming - a bug that changes when you test it.

I can work around my specific problem - I just want to understand why this happens.

TIA,
Dan

Dan Walter
Daniel.Walter@uvm.edu
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[Sheco]

Are you sure they are both spelled the same way and that you dont perhaps have a function with the same name as the variable? I mean is that the real code?

 

[tsuji]

>A little while down the HTML page, I have a call to server side code
How?