I am doing a reskin of an ASP site, MS SQL in the back end. I made a copy of the site and DB and am using them as my development site. Fine so far, but here's where it gets wierd. I am getting random ASCII characters throughout my text, not totaly random, for example a double quote will come back as ’. So they're consistant. This is both for data in a file, and data from the DB, but I'm fairly certain all of it is qwritten with Response.Write.
These two sites are in identical environments, on the same server, using the same DB (well a copy of one anyway)
I use ASP, but i dont think it matters. I am parsing large text files. some of them have non standard characters. I just want to parse a file and replace anything that is not found on a keyboard in usa. I just want to keep:
A-Z, a-z, 0-9, .,?'"!@#$%^&*()-_=+";:<>/|}{[]`~
everything else i want to remove (asian letters, wacky characters, etc)
I'm trying to catch some characters in a string before they are entered into a database that are not ASCII and convert them to ASCII characters. The characters in question are the angular double quotes but this could be associated with similar occurences. I want to check for left angular double quotes [“] or right angular double quotes [“] and replace them with straight double quotes ["].
(I'm not actually storing the HTML equivalents - they are simply there to give you an idea of which characters I'm on about.)a way of catching these buggers? I've tried using chr(8220) (the numeric code for one of the illegal characters apparently) but ASP has a problem working with numbers outside the character map.
On a site I have written some of the page's sometimes fail. It's where I have a currency in a text field - when the user attempts to update the value, the page throws an error. I have traced it down to being sometimes the currency is written as £60,00 instead of £60.00. So for some reason they're getting a commar instead of a period.
This only happens occasionally - the rest of the time the page works fine. The system the person is using doesn't change, and none of the code is changing. I've used FormatNumber with the paramaters of 2,,,0. Anyone had any experience of formating of currency just changing?
I am trying to display records ( text and images) from a database. I get the text displayed but the image is displayed as a large series of Asscii text.
Connect.open "DSN=Rentals" 'declare sql statement that will query the database query = "Select * FROM RentalTable WHERE Location LIKE '%" query = query & Replace(request("varLocation"), "'", "''") & "%'" query = query & " AND PropertyType = '" & Replace(request("varPropertyType"), "'", "''") query = query & "' ORDER BY DateAvailable" RS.Open query, Connect
do until RS.EOF %> <table width="75%" border="1"> <tr> <td><%=RS("Address")%></td> <td><%=RS("Location")%></td> <td <% Response.ContentType = "image/gif" Response.BinaryWrite(rs("Image1")) %> </td> </tr> </table>........
Am trying to restrict user from entering non ASCII character in the text area. Say if the user entered non ASCII character then on the form post back it should show them the message like:
However, what I want to do is include a request.querystring("ID"), so that IF an ID is defined, eg ID=3, , it will display the relevant (not random) information. I've tried this every way I can think and get type mismatches, etc etc. It's probably really simple but I can't see it.
We have the need to have a random token (a 16 char alphanumeric field) to be used as the key for one of our SQL tables. I have created a random token generator, however after only 3 months in production, it appears that we had an instance where a token that already existed in the tables was created. There are 3810 records currently in the database so it isn't like there are billions of records there.
I contacted an old college buddy of mine who is a mathematician, and he claims, assuming that random really does mean random, that the chances of getting a duplicate token are 1 in 79.5 septillion (79,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000).
So my conclusion is that this was either a complete freak of nature occurance, or my random generator isn't really all that random. Here is the code behind how I am generating this: Code:
I am trying to generate a random number. I am using randomize and then rnd to return a decimal number between 100 and 120. This will give me a longitude. I am doing something similar to generate a latitude.
I created this on a page which refreshs every minute. I put these points into a map and they are showing up in groups of straight lines. Since rnd is time based will refreshing every 60 seconds return similar numbers?
Agreed its not the best code, but he is finding that the same image could be repeated like three times in a run.
I have an include file which displays the image, and the random script is placed inside that include. So when he is going from page to page this is where the issue lies.
Can anyone help me out here, is it even possible to have a different image load each time, and not have them repeating.
I am using random number to be used as a unique identifir. Since random numbers are in decimals I am using going to convert it into an integer and since I need to append this Id into my URL, I am converting it into a string. SO my formula looks like this.
CStr(Int((Highest-Lowest+1)*Rnd+Lowest))
S0 now every time a new record is generated would this formula generate a unique number for unique identification in the table. I can't see how it can do it. Say A user is assigned a random number; then another user subscribes so how would the server determines that the random value assigned to next user is not already assigned to any other user.
In case if this can't work (a unique ID for every user) then I'll stick to this very same formula and after the random number is generated, I'll check this number with the table in the database and see whether it's been assigned already. If yes, I'll request another random value, if not then I'll go with it. Is this the right strategy?
I have done random image display with the help suggestion from this discussion form. now I want to provide link on each image. i.e. all the images display randomly, should have different link. is it possible? if yes, how?
is there sombody who can helpme witht he following, i am ''pretty new'' to php and am looking for a script to show images randomly at a 10/ 15 seconds interval. is there anybody who can help me with this or does know where to find a good template script for this?
I have the below ASP function to display a random image from a folder.
<% Function RandomImage(strPath) Randomize()
If Right(strPath, 1) <> Chr(47) Then strPath = strPath & Chr(47) strPhysical = Server.MapPath(strPath) Set objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("C:Inetpubwwwrootpag-siteimages andoms") Set objFiles = objFolder.Files
For Each objFile in objFiles strFile = LCase(objFile.Name) strFiles = strFiles & strFile & vbTab Next
strImages = Split(strFiles, vbTab) If UBound(strImages) > 1 Then RandomImage = strPath & strImages(Int(Rnd(1)*UBound(strImages))) End If End Function %>
I'm afraid I have a technical problem here. Basically what happens is that I'm getting some random errors(like Type mismatch... etc) that shouldn't under normal circumstances occur. Then I connect to my server via remote desktop and Recycle the application pool on which my asp pages run. Errors then disappear
I have a file where i want to call a random asp file using the "include file" statement. I know it can be done with images, but can it be done with other asp files? and how?
I want to take 3 records from a database. The selection must first take any record marked as priority and then random records (so there could be 3 priority records and no more or 1 priority and 2 random etc) My theory is to build a recordset filtered by records marked priority, and if there are less than 3, build a second recordset of all the other records. Questions 1, how can I select random records form the second recordset, without selecting the same one twice? 2, OR, could I write a sql statement which would randomly select 3 records from my table 3, Or is they a way I could write a query (view) in Access which would do the whole lot for me (select the priority records and then random records up to 3)?
I set up a random code for people registering with my site.....
letters="1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" for i=1 to 16 Randomize() rNum=Int(Rnd()*36)+1 code=code&mid(letters,rNum,1) next
but for some reason it sometimes saves code as an empty string. When I register a fake name, ie zzz, it seems to work fine, but for some of my members is saves as an empty string.
trying to get a random number from 0000 to 9999, is there an easy way to do this? i'm using this for a unique filename and want it to be 4 digits from 0000 to 9999.
i have a db where ± 15 users stores multiple second hand items with images. Now i wish to display on the openingpage a list of all users with 1 item + image. So far no problem.
But now i wish to change the order of the users every time the pages open.
How can i shuffle the recordset before i load the users in a array, or how can i shuffle the array after populating with the users? Code:
I'm trying to sort a list of 10 people into two groups--RANDOMLY. I've gotten as far as to generate a random number and assign a name to it. I just need to know how to generate 9 more numbers, making sure no numbers/names repeat. Code:
I have a problem creating random numbers. I basically have this
Randomize() iRandom = Int(10 * Rnd + 1)
If I do not wait a few sec before hitting the page again it will create the same random number as generated a few seconds before.Any idea why it is like that? Another way to reprocess the "bug" is to just fit F5 few times in a row and you end up with the same number being generated. Its annoying and I need some help to "fix" it!
I have a script which show quotes randomly, Here is the code::
Code: <% Dim quotes(3), iNumber, iRandom 'Dim an array of 3 variables quotes(1) = "This is quote 1" quotes(2) = "This is quote 2" quotes(3) = "This is quote 3" iRandom = ubound(quotes) randomize 'call random function iNumber = Int((iRandom)* Rnd) 'get random quote number Response.Write(Quotes(iNumber)) 'write output to screen %>
