MS VBScript Compilation error 800a0401

[Matthew Louden]

I have no idea what's wrong with the following ASP statement:

Response.Write "<select name=\"id\">"

MS VBScript Compilation error 800a0401
expected end of statement

However, if I do the following, it will be fine:

<select name="id">
<%

%>
</select>


any ideas??

[Manohar Kamath [MVP]]

Response.Write "<select name=""id"">"

Within VBScript, you escape a " with another " and not \.

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Manohar Kamath
Editor, .netBooks
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"Matthew Louden" <jrefactors@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have no idea what's wrong with the following ASP statement:
>
> Response.Write "<select name=\"id\">"
>
> MS VBScript Compilation error 800a0401
> expected end of statement
>
> However, if I do the following, it will be fine:
>
> <select name="id">
> <%
>
> %>
> </select>
>
>
> any ideas??
>
>

[Ray at]

The \ character is used to escape characters in jscript, not vbscript. In
vbscript, you write "" to escape a " character in a string.
Response.Write "<select name=""id"">"

Ray at work

"Matthew Louden" <jrefactors@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ufKKNVpjDHA.2512@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

> I have no idea what's wrong with the following ASP statement:
>
> Response.Write "<select name=\"id\">"
>
> MS VBScript Compilation error 800a0401
> expected end of statement
>
> However, if I do the following, it will be fine:
>
> <select name="id">
> <%
>
> %>
> </select>
>
>
> any ideas??
>
>