I have two pages: the first is a

[irate]

I have two pages:

the first is a form with a textbox and submit button. and the second is an asp that checks the values of the form.

if someone puts anything but a number in the textbox i want to convert it to an int so i use the following code:

<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;price&quot;>

<%

price = request.form(&quot;price&quot
price = Cint(price)

%>

BUT this is giving me the error:

Error Type:
Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A000D)
Type mismatch: 'Cint'
search.asp, line 8


Can anyone tell me what im doing wrong?

 

[cbokowski]

what is the value in request.form(&quot;price&quot?

sounds like price is spaces or null

 

[link9]

Sounds like your basic understanding of what cInt does and how it's used it off just a bit.

Cint will take this:

&quot;87&quot;

and turn it into a variant of subtype integer, so you then have

87

BUT... cInt will always return an error if there are characters in there, so that this:

&quot;hello, I'm a string&quot;

will never convert. So if there are any characters in there (a dollar sign, for instance), and you try to cInt() it, you get the error.

An alternative might be to use client side checking to make sure that what was entered is a number. It's easy enough.

<script language=javascript>
function checkForNumber(var){
if (isNaN(var)){
alert('You must enter only a number!');
document.formName.price.value = '';
return false;
}
return true;
</script>

<input type=text name=price onBlur=&quot;checkForNumber(this.value);&quot;>

 

[link9]

Missed my closing } on that function there, so if you're copying and pasting, it should be:

function checkForNumber(var){
if (isNaN(var)){
alert('You must enter only a number!');
document.formName.price.value = '';
return false;
}
return true;
}


paul

 

[irate]

Thanks very much, i thought that might be the problem.
Is there no way i can convert a string to a number?

or maybe if it is anything apart from 0 to 9 change whatever it is to 0 ?

 

[lobstah]

If IsNumeric(request.form(&quot;price&quot = False Then
price = 0
Else
price = request.form(&quot;price&quot
End If

 

[lobstah]

oops! forgot ending paren -

If IsNumeric(request.form(&quot;price&quot[colr red])[/color] = False Then

 

[lobstah]

second oops, typo...

If IsNumeric(request.form(&quot;price&quot) = False Then


too bad we can't delete our mistyped responses.......

:~/