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- The Fundamentals of VBScript
- VBScript Versus VB
- Creating Variables in VBScript
- Concatenating Strings
- Arrays and Loops
- Resizing Arrays
- Inequality Operators
- Conditional Statements
- Select Case Statements
- Sub
- Function
- Working with Arguments
- Beware of Types
- Event Procedure Naming Syntax
- Server-Side Events
- Local Variables
- Script-Level Variables
Select Case Statements
The Select Case statement allows you to itemize blocks of code to execute according to a test variable, basically helping you to test against many conditions very efficiently. The following code in Listing 3.9 shows you how to use a Select Case statement, and Figure 3.7 shows the output of the code.
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Listing 3.9: Using Select Case Statements (03asp09.htm)
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBScript>
Sub button1_OnClick()
Dim TestVar
Dim varTrait
'Get the stooge that the user entered
TestVar = text1.value
'You start a Select Case statement with
'the keyword Select Case and the given test
'an arbitrary variable name.
Select Case TestVar
'Then use the keyword Case followed by
'the value of the test variable to which
'you want to respond. In this case, if
'the test variable = "Moe", then assign the
'value "Bossy" to another variable.
Case "Moe":
varTrait = "Bossy"
'If the test variable = "Larry" assign the
'string, "Whiney" to the variable, varTrait.
Case "Larry":
varTrait = "Whiney"
'If the test variable = "Curly" assign the
'string, "Funny" to the variable, varTrait.
Case "Curly":
varTrait = "Funny"
'You use Case Else when there are no other
'match can be found.
'IMPORTANT: Don't forget to put the colon at
'the end of each Case condition.
Case Else:
varTrait = "Unknown"
'You end a Select Case construct with the End
'Select keywords.
End Select
text2.value = varTrait
End Sub
</SCRIPT>
Figure 3.7 The output from the Select Case statement.
A procedure is a set of statements to which you assign a name. Then, when you want to execute the statements within the procedure you use the name that you assigned to the procedure. VBScript supports two kinds of procedures. The first kind is a Sub. The second kind is a Function.