ListCount in VBScript?

[multiplex77]

Hi,

Is there an equivalent to strObj.ListCount in VBScript? Basically i need to count the number of elements in a comma-delimited list of strings.

I'm actually really new to VBScript (I'm starting to code in ASP), but I'm more familiar with Visual Basic. After looking at the VBScript reference, I've discovered (to my disappointment) that VBScript doesn't have all the functions that Visual Basic has. Is this true? If so, what is the alternative so that my ASP pages can be equally powerful as a Visual Basic application?

Thanks very much for the advice...

 

[Zymurgyst]

multiplex77,
Below is the link to the MSDN site detailing the features in VB that are not in VBScript:

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/vsgrpVBSFeatures.asp

 

[Zymurgyst]

Oops! Pushed the Submit button by accident. The actual site is

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/vsgrpNonFeatures.asp

All variables are Variants in VBScript, so you cannot declare a data type String. Unless you can find a string object that you can refer to in the CreateObject (

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/vsfctCreateObject.asp)

function, I think you are SOL.

Zy

 

[makai]

Try this:

Dim str As String 'the string
Dim Pos, NElements As Integer

str = "Field1,Field2,Field3" 'a string of 3 elements

NElements = 1 ' there is always 1 element

Pos = InStr(1, str, ",&quot 'look for the first comma
While Pos
NElements = NElements + 1
Pos = InStr(Pos + 1, str, ",&quot 'next comma
Wend

Msgbox("Number of elements = " & NElements)