Syntax Error In If Statement?

[Moebius01]

Ok, first off I've never had any asp/vbscript training, just go on what I picked up by hand, so if this is standard, it's just one I never encountered before.

Will having a comment in the middle of an IF statement (before the THEN) cause an error? This was the original code.

If (args.Step = 0 Or args.Step = 1) And _
 (args.TemplateID = 501 Or args.TemplateID = 502) And _
  argsToStep > args.Step Then

I didn't need one layer of testing it did, so I commented the line out as follows

If (args.Step = 0 Or args.Step = 1) And _
'Template Check not needed (args.TemplateID = 501 Or args.TemplateID = 502) And _ 
  argsToStep > args.Step Then

But when the code was executed, it threw a syntax error. Is there something else I'm missing, or is it that you just can't have a comment in the middle of the IF statement like that?

 

[monksnake]

You are right in saying you can't have a comment in the middle of an IF statement where you have it.

You would be interrupting the middle of a statement like that.



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[Moebius01]

Gotcha, thanks. I rather assumed the code would simply ignore the commented line completely in a case like this.