I have a database which contain a field with multiple keywords. I have also created a search functionality in ASP and when searching the database I get the output I am looking for.
EXCEPT when doing a search using norwegian characters like æ, ø and å, also uppercase Æ, Ø and Å. The field in the database has these keywords I am searching for.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this to work??
I have tried replace(strSearch, "æ", "æ") and a number of other things but nothing works. I am sure there is a way to do this.
I am creating a search function for my website and after som initial problems it is now working, well almost.It will not return any results if I use norwegian characters like æ, ø and å - also in uppercase Æ, Ø and Å.
i get the ref url that come to my site and i want to convert it to find out what was the query in (google or other searcher sites)
foe example : if someone goes to google and search some text and my site was in his resaults and he click on it , in my site i see his link ref like http://www.google.co.il/search?hl=i...91-Google&meta=
i want to know (in asp and save it to DB) what was the word or words that the user write in search engine.
I am trying to create a parametric search within a table (in the column headings). My first page (search.asp) allows you to choose parameters from a dropdown box, such as package and volts. You click "search" and it reads the Access dbase to yield the results.
The results page (results.asp) displays the information based on the parameters. Under the package column heading, I have the same drop down box, and I am able to once again choose the package I want and the table will refresh. Code:
Anyone in here got an idea how i could limit the display on on a paragraph to 50 characters? because everytime I access the database it would show up the entire paragraph.
I have the character & (username is a&d) in a username in one of my database fields and it won't read it properly. Do you have to do something special with characters like that?
sqlString = "SELECT * FROM Users WHERE UserID=" & "'" & userid & "'"
I have a MS SQL 7.0 table with a large field (> 500 characters). My select statement embedded in my ASP file in an intranet web interface only returns 255 characters. If I run the select statement in Query Analyzer, I can easily change the "Maximum Characters per Column" setting to return the entire field, but that doesn't help me in my ASP web interface. How do I return the entire field through ASP?
What I am trying to do could be simple but I have no idea how to it. I am trying to display only a part of the record retrieved from database. I have retrieve data from database and I show it in normal way <% = oRs(0)%>, the problem is that I want to show only 100 first characters and then make some thing like this … after 100 first character. In this way all the data retrieved would look the same in the page.
One of our offices in AD is called "Albert St", the OU is called "Albert St", but when I retrieve the value out of the list box it becomes "Albert" and throws errors as it cant find the "Albert" OU. Not surprising, really. I am going to try type casting, but beyond that
I have a wee lil problem when I am inserting data into my db from my asp page. The problem is that it is inserting unwanted characters with the values. I have used the following to try and remove the unwanted characters but to no avail: Code:
I have a variable I'm pulling from a database that's a phone number in XXX-XXX-XXXX format. What I'm looking for is a way to strip out all non-numeric characters from the variable (XXXXXXXXXX). I don't want it to look only for "-", since sometimes, there are also alpha characters entered as well.
Im doing a update page and noticed this error, whenever you want to write for example "can't, i've" it errors on submit, but characters like "." are okay. Why doesn't it like these characters and how can i make it like them? I need some extra code?
I have a SQL statement to retreive results based on keywords entered I only want to show the first 200 characters of the field though, how would I modify this code to do just that?
I am currently building a website and in one of the pages, it is to return Immediate, Extended, Standdown instead of 1.Immediate, 2.Extended, 3.Standdown(in the Ms Access). I am wondering if there is any quote to help me not display the first 2 characters(eg 1.) but just the 3rd character onwards. # I need the numbering there for future usage thus i cannot remove it from the Access database
I have created a form in which people insert there fax number, at the moment it returns an error if a space is inserted in the fax number ie: 0234 76893. How do I correct this?
The website that I am developing is having a search option. The search is according to the type of Industries, like IT-Software, IT-Hardware etc. I am using procedure to search through the database. Now whenever I Select an Industry name like IT - Software, FMCG/Foods/Beverages(i.e with special characters) etc. i get an error message Code: Line 1: Incorrect syntax near '/'. here is the code where I am getting the error
this is same for every keyword having special characters like / , - and even space But when I use keywords without any special character its works fine.
I'm pulling product descriptions from the database and would like to limit the number of charcters that is displayed. Also, I'd like to add ... at the end.
Something like: This long text is boring blah blah blah
I have a database with names, lastnames which has special characters to be seen (10-15 of them), for example: "{" has to be "š". I emphasize - those characters are not to be replaced in the database, but just to be replaced when go to the screen.Is the only way to do that function replace in the user function that has to be made? I have to say that I have to make the similar function for data entry - input also, which has to replace those characters before - for example search.
i am running MS SQL server over ASP.When i try to retrieve values from my MS SQL db, i get all values except for text characters. with a simple select statement such as
select * from table1
When i then try to apply the record sets in my ASP page. e.g.
<%=(products.Fields.Item("category").Value)%>
I get all values for varchar, bit, interger, numeric etc but the text values which are more than 250 characters dont appear.What could be the problem?
i want to replace the first few characters of a string with something else. we are pulling information from our database and i want to replace the first 3 characters with some different text. how can i do this? i know how to use the replace function to replace all instances in a string, but how can i replace just the first instnace?
I am trying to prepare a report to export data to a csv file and, in addtion to the charaters present in the DB the csv file also contains some charaters which i do not understand (some square type characters), i tried to copy them here but they seem to changing to spaces when copied here.
I try to display a combo box which contains String of variable length.But it occurs that only the 10 first characters of one string are displayed.is it a limit imposed by ASP
I have a Visual FoxPro table with Memos fields, and when i insert into the table a value that cames from a TEXTAREA field on a form, give me an error. Why? if the table field is MEMO?
I have an ASP page. In there, I retirieve some data (Korean characters for testing purpose) from the database and I tried to display it. If I set the session.codepage = 949, the foreign characters dodn't display correctly. If I set session.codepage = 1252, which is English (US), the foreign characters display fine in a combo box.
I have built my first ASP site which allows users to update content of the site via forms which I was feeling quite smug about. However I have noticed some unusually characters appear on the site. The characters vary depending on which machine I am viewing it on but consist of �, ? or a small square.
I was wondering if anyone has encountered this before or is it to do with this bit of code?
Code:
dbconn.commandtext="UPDATE tbl_areaintros SET introtext='"&Replace(request.Form("introtext"), "'", "''")&"' WHERE introid="&request.Form("introid")
