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- '* visitors and is provided strictly for the *
- '* purpose of illustration. *
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- %>
-
- <%
- Dim strScriptName
- Dim strInputText
-
- ' Read in the script name so I know where to
- ' point the form's action to.
- strScriptName = Request.ServerVariables("URL")
-
- ' Read in the input from the text area.
- strInputText = Request.Form("txtWordCount")
-
- ' Check for empty input and ignore it...
- If strInputText = "" Then
- strInputText = "This is some text for the textarea!"
- Else
- ' Echo out the input:
- Response.Write "You entered:<br />" & vbCrLf
- Response.Write "<pre>"
- Response.Write Server.HTMLEncode(strInputText)
- Response.Write "</pre>" & vbCrLf
-
- ' Print out the counts we got:
- Response.Write "<p>It contained <b>" _
- & GetWordCount(strInputText) _
- & "</b> words and <b>" _
- & GetCharCount(strInputText) _
- & "</b> characters.</p><br />" & vbCrLf
- End If
-
- ' I wrapped these into functions so you can reuse them.
- '**** Begin Functions ***********************************
- Function GetWordCount(strInput)
- Dim strTemp
-
- ' Deal with tabs and carriage returns
- ' by replacing them with spaces.
- strTemp = Replace(strInput, vbTab, " ")
- strTemp = Replace(strTemp, vbCr, " ")
- strTemp = Replace(strTemp, vbLf, " ")
-
- ' Remove leading and trailing spaces
- strTemp = Trim(strTemp)
-
- ' Combine multiple spaces down to single ones
- Do While InStr(1, strTemp, " ", 1) <> 0
- strTemp = Replace(strTemp, " ", " ")
- Loop
-
- ' Get a count by splitting the string into an array
- ' and retreiving the number of elements in it.
- ' I add one to deal with the 0 lower bound.
- GetWordCount = UBound(Split(strTemp, " ", -1, 1)) + 1
- End Function ' GetWordCount
-
- Function GetCharCount(strInput)
- GetCharCount = Len(strInputText)
- End Function ' GetCharCount
- '**** End Functions *************************************
-
- ' Here's our form that we fill with the value they
- ' entered last time.
- %>
- <p>Enter some text:</p>
-
- <form action="<%= strScriptName %>" method="post">
- <textarea name="txtWordCount" cols="40" rows="5"
- ><%= Server.HTMLEncode(strInputText) %></textarea>
-
- <br />
-
- <input type="submit">
- </form>
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