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Version Location Description Submitted By
Printed Page 33
Paragraph before the last code snippet

Duplicate "to be".

Anonymous 
Printed Page 36
Example 2-4 contains the line

my $strMessage = $Request->$Form("txtMessage")->Item();

Certainly the '$' in front of 'Form' is incorrect, since Form is a member
function of $Request. Most code I have seen recently also uses 'item' instead
of 'Item()', but that's more a matter of taste than syntax.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 45
Example 3-1, fourth comment and next line (half-way down the page)

Comment and next line should be indented by a couple of spaces.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 48
Figure 3-1, third line of first paragraph

Extra space between "on" and "in" ("on in the ASP page,").

Anonymous 
Printed Page 71
Second code snippet, about half-way down the page

Fourth comment line wraps to the next line. Might want to also remove two spaces
before the comment mark (') to align it with the next two comment lines.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 78
4th Paragraph

The sentence beginning "Dynamic evaluation allows a code snippet..." is
repeated identically by the following sentence.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 79

In Table 4-1, the description for the '$' symbol reads:

Matches only the end of a string. For example "$d" would match the
last "d" in "Todd is mad."

It should read:

Matches only the end of a string. For example "d$" would match the
last "d" in "Todd is mad."

Anonymous 
Printed Page 80

In Table 4-1, the description for /B reads:

"The opposite of /b. Matches any word boundary."

Should read:

"The opposite of /b. Matches any non-word boundary."

Anonymous 
Printed Page 81

The 7th line in Example 4-1 now reads:

objRegExp.Pattern = "[^a-z -]"

Should read:

objRegExp.Pattern = "^[a-z-]"

Anonymous 
Printed Page 81
Example 4-1, Using the Test Method to Validate a String

This discrepancy has already been reported by the above reader, but I feel
that the interpretation of which of the disperate facts is incorrect is wrong.

The code example reads:

'Set the pattern (allow all letters, apostrophes, and hyphens)
objRegExp.Pattern = "[^a-z' -]"

I believe that the code is correct, but the comment should read:

'Set the pattern (allow all letters, apostrophes, spaces and hyphens)

as this would fit with the continuation of the example on the next page, which
seems to imply that names with spaces are OK.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 82
Example 4-2, Using the Replace Method

The code example currently reads:

'Set the pattern (allow all letters, apostrophes, and hyphens)
objRegExp.Pattern = "asp"

However, the comment is in fact that from Example 4-1 on page 81 and does not
refer to the example shown. The comment should read something like:

'Set the pattern (match the string "asp" immediately preceeded and
followed by a word boundary)

Anonymous 
Printed Page 87
line 6 (including comments and blank lines) of the code on the bottom of page

Line reads:
objLong.logTextFileLines = "C:Loglinecount.log"

I believe line should read:
objLong.TextFilePath = "C:Loglinecount.log"

TextFilePath should be used instead of logTextFileLines because TextFilePath is the
property of the object logTextFileLines which was instanciated as objLong. This
propery contains the physical path to the log file and what was intended to be set.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 103
In the first bullet under "Further Reading," the URL produces a "The

page you're looking for has been moved or removed from the site" error.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 123
line 16 of ValidateForm code

Raise not found

I think this should be "Err.Raise".

Anonymous 
Printed Page 132
Just before End Function for AddElement Function

This line will not add a FormElement that's type is "RADIO".

A "family" of radio buttons should share a common NAME attribute with
different values. The GenerateForm class doesn't seem to take this into
account.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 179
Property Let Statements

The property let statements are incorrect:
The erroneous lines are commented with 'x and the correction line appears below. Even
then, the parameter names/usage could be semantically more meaningful;

Public Property Let FormElementName(strFormNameValue, strFormName)
'Check to see if the element exists in the dictionary object.
'If it does, update the current value, else add a new value
If objFormNameDict.Exists(CStr(iDataType)) then
'Alter the current value
'x objFormNameDict(strFormName) = strFormNameValue
objFormNameDict(strFormNameValue) = strFormName
Else
'A new element, so add it!
'x objDataTypeDict.Add strFormName, strFormNameValue
objDataTypeDict.Add strFormNameValue, strFormName
End If
End Property

Public Property Let FormElementDescription(strFormValue, strFormName)
'Check to see if the element exists in the dictionary object.
'If it does, update the current value, else add a new value
If objDataTypeDict.Exists(CStr(iDataType)) then
'Alter the current value
'x objDataTypeDict(CStr(iDataType)) = strFormValue
objDataTypeDict(strFormValue) = strFormName
Else
'A new element, so add it!
'x objDataTypeDict.Add strFormValue, strFormName
End If
End Property

Anonymous 
Printed Page 270
sidebar

In the sidebar at the top of page 270, he says that the content linker list is
usually stored as a .txt file, but that we should use the .asp suffix to protect the
information in the file. "Since the Content Linker list file does not contain valid
ASP code, an error will be generated, and the user will not see the source code." But
this is untrue. There is NO asp code in the file, and so IIS will simply return the
contents of the file to be displayed as text, just as it would with the .txt file.

Anonymous