Loop through a string 2

[egolds]

I have a page with 7 checkboxes, one for each day of the week. To avoid having a session variable for each day of the week that I need to check for on or off I have each checkbox named "NOTWORK" and the value is (M,T,W,TH,F,SA,SU) so if someone checks Monday Wednesday and Friday the value of Session("NotWork&quot is equal to M,W,F.

I need a way to loop through this string so that if the user comes back to this page the checkboxes will be checked.

In Each checkbox I have the following:

<%NotWorkCheck(&quot;M&quot%> where M would be in Monday, T in Tuesday....

and the function NotWorkCheck is as follows:

Function NotWorkCheck(Day)
dim arrDays(7),x
arrDays=Session(&quot;NotWork&quot
for x = 1 to 7
if arrDays(x) = Day then respose.write(&quot; checked&quot
Next
End Function

The page is erroring when it attempts to assign Session(&quot;NotWork&quot to arrDays giving a type mismatch error.
Is there a way to do this or should I go back to 7 variables for each day?

 

[shaddow]

Try to use Split function.
Whend u receive the Request(&quot;NOTWORK&quot in the asp page u get all the values separated by &quot;,&quot; (ie &quot;M,W,F&quot therefor u need to split this string to acess his separate values more easylly:

days=Split(Session(&quot;NOTWORK&quot,&quot;,&quot
if u have Session(&quot;NOTWORK&quot=&quot;M,W,F&quot;
then days(0)=&quot;M&quot;, days(1)=&quot;W&quot;,days(2)=&quot;F&quot;. ________
George, M

 

[egolds]

Worked like a charm. Thanks for the info on the Split function something to keep in my bag of tricks.

Eric

 

[David75]

Using InStr to check the contents of the session variable for each day would also work.

If instr(Session(&quot;NotWork&quot, &quot;M&quot then
turn on Monday check box
end if
if instr(Session(&quot;NotWork&quot, &quot;T&quot then
turn on Tuesday check box
end if

Only problem is that searching for &quot;T&quot; for tuesday would also hit on &quot;TH&quot; for thursday. Either change &quot;TH&quot; to something unique or delimit the fields and search for &quot;,T,&quot; where &quot;,&quot; is the delimiter.