>At 03:59 PM 9/8/00, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>Try to think of it as a program. You can't use the variable's value
>until you've set it. Why does it matter where it goes in the page?
Not exactly true for Perl, is it? -- the BEGIN subroutine comes to
mind. What follows is just a speculation on my part, hopefully Joshua or
someone else who knows better will correct me if I'm wrong... As I
understand the way ASP code is parsed, everything is converted to a perl
script with patches of HTML replaced by print statements. This perl script
is then submitted to eval(). Assuming this is true, I think you should be
able to use the BEGIN subroutine to initialize your variables just like in
a normal perl script.
Hello <%=$name%>
<%
BEGIN {
$name="something";
}
%>
Of course, if you have variables that need to be initialized for every
script you run, you should probably use Script_OnStart.
Dmitry
PS Perhaps I should've test this first, before talking off my ass.
>If you really want to separate it, use Response->Include or something.
>>
>>On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Issam W. Alameh wrote:
>>
>> > I want to have something like
>> > ------------------------
>> > Hello <%=$name%>
>> > <%
>> > $name="something";
>> > %>
>> > ------------------------
