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The author writes "ASP has the ability to write .html or any other text based documents directly to a web server (You need to write the text output to a directory that has write authority). This enables the instantaneous publication of user input without the need for uploading files from a PC." This example code shows how to write text based documents to a server using ASP.

This is a short exmaple that demonstrates the text manipulation functions in .asp. It takes a string of ten numbers 8005551212 (the 800 number for 800 info) and splits it into the common ###-###-#### format.

This article lays out how to use ASP and JScript to open and read XML files.

Want to add value to your current search? Allow your users to search from within search results. As databases grow the necessity for the user to continually narrow a search to the item that they truly want will grow also. The following example utilizes a db on U.S. State capitals. Upon the first search two radio buttons will appear indicating a search (default) or a search within the current results. Searching within the current results will take the first search and add it to the new search and so on.

This tutorial shows how to implement a catalog site that is build with Active Server pages and SQL Server. Along with the implementation there is source code and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of creating a catalog site that gets its content from a database. Included are pages for displaying products, creating a menu page, category page, and running a search across a database.

The purpose of this article is to show how to get records from an html form and submit that form to an ASP page. This ASP page will then use SQL to enter the records into the database.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create your first ActiveX DLL component using Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 and above. The power of ActiveX component is not even closely covered here. The purpose of this tutorial is simply give you a start on how DLL is created.

Throughout 4 different FAQ sections - Beginner, Intermmediate, Databases and Advanced, 4GuysFromRolla.com addresses and answers a number of frequently asked questions on ASP programming of every level.

Self explaining sort scripts to show how to manipulate strings. InStr(), LCase(), Left(), Len(), LenB(), LTring(), Mid(), Replace(), Right(), RTrim(), Space (), String(), StrReverse(), Trim() and UCase() commands.

This tutorial explains opening, reading and creating files using example codes. Up to 6 examples are used.

Article on accessing drives, folders and files with ASP; iterating though drives, folders and files collections, reading content of a file and more. Also provides detailed listing of all properties and methods of FileSystemObject, Drive, Folder, File and TextStream objects.

Generic framework showing in detail how to implement forms with ASP, with validation and field persistence.

Learn how to add the ability to search through pages on your site by storing keywords in a database table. This tutorial shows one server side include containing one function is all you need.

This tutorial shows how to quickly create and track multiple-choice surveys using our XML-based Survey Server for IIS. It uses XML to store surveys, XSL to generate different presentations, and ASP to manage all the processing to create an extensible engine for creating multiple-choice surveys.