Disappearing date (ASP, JS)

[bthouin]

Hi,

I have a terribly simple problem, but can't see the (probably obvious)
solution:

I have a listbox with date entries. When I first wanted to get the entry
selected by the user, I needed actually to store it in a session
variable, so I did it that way:
var compVersion = Request.Form("compVers");
Session("CompVersion") = compVersion;

This promptly generated an error, telling me that one cannot store an
implicit variable in a session variable, or something like that. OK, I
thought, I'll use trick 57, and changed it to:
var compVersion = Request.Form("compVers");
Session("CompVersion") = Date(compVersion);

No error anymore, but... when I know print the content of
Session.Contents("CompVersion"), I get... "undefined", although a print
of the variable after the first code line gives me exactly the data as I
expect it !!!

So, how do I save my date entry in a session variable, so that I can use
it later as a date again ?

Thanks for help
Bernard

[Julian Roberts]

My suggestion to newbies is to use VB Script, a bit easier to get to grips
with than Javascript. With JS, you need to cast the variable to a string. eg

Session("CompVersion") = String(Request.Form("compVers"))

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[bthouin]

Julian Roberts wrote:

> My suggestion to newbies is to use VB Script, a bit easier to get to grips
> with than Javascript. With JS, you need to cast the variable to a string. eg
>
> Session("CompVersion") = String(Request.Form("compVers"))
>

Ok, Jules, that's what I did, but then, when I pass that session
variable to the next page, which is in VBScript (!), how do I turn that
string back to a date ? CDate(string) gives me an error...

Bernard

[bthouin]

Julian Roberts wrote:

> My suggestion to newbies is to use VB Script, a bit easier to get to grips
> with than Javascript. With JS, you need to cast the variable to a string. eg
>
> Session("CompVersion") = String(Request.Form("compVers"))
>

Some more info:
- I originally entered the date in SQLServer in a date field as
"01.02.2005" (1st of Feb 2005, European notation)
- the value read from SQLServer looks like this: "Tue Feb 1 00:00:00
UTC+0100 2005"
- this, put into a string in the session variable is NOT recognized as a
valid date by the VBScript IsDate and CDate functions !!! So much for
compatibility...

Does this mean I now have to split that string and handle it myself ? I
find that outrageous !

Bernard