Is it possible to only show a certain number of characters from data in a database? For example, I have a database that one of the data types is memo and the data in this field for each row contains minimum of 300-400 words. Right now I call this information with <%= rs("content").Value %> BUT I only want to show the first 50 characters then have . How would I go about doing this?
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
How can I prevent a user from entering more characters than are allowed in a database field.For instance,if a field only allows 6 characters,how do I prevent the user from trying to submit the form in a user friendly way?
I am using a WYSIWYG editor for articles and the article text is being inserted into a SQL db field called ARTICLEBODY.
Question:
On my homepage, I only want to display the first 400 characters of ARTICLEBODY field. I am using the LEN function and it does what I want. BUT, is there a way to not have it cutoff in the middle of a word?
I need to insert some number into database as text. My problem is if I insert the number (ie. 4.0), the value in the database only show (4). So, is it possible to convert a real number into text number using ASP?
in master batch table i have various master batch like 200701-0001 200701-0002 200701-0003
Now each master batch can have multiple final mixed batch like
200701-0001-01 200701-0001-02 200701-0001-03
and this record is inserted in to fmix table.
so i have a form in which i have a dropdown menu in which all the master batch is listed, i select 200701-0001 and that value is passed to next page where i will enter other fields data and insertion to my fmix_no will be done automatic like 200701-0001-01, 200701-0001-02 and so on,
how to achieve this
so in short each master batch will have more than one final mixed batch.
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I want To handel the error messages by myself in one part in my script. I know that in VB I can Use the statment - On error resume next And I also know that I can retrive the Error Number In VB with Err.Number.
How can I handel the errors by myself in ASP? I heard about the ASPErr Object, Is it the same thing like the err object in VB?
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 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?