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Type mismatch when splitting string

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Topic: Type mismatch when splitting string

Posted By: gr8indianbear
Subject: Type mismatch when splitting string
Date Posted: 29 June 2004 at 10:56am

I am sending a querystring to a page and the page is splitting one of the values into an array. The code for splitting the string looks like this:

If Request.QueryString("hlight") = "" Then
strHlight = ""
Else
strHlight = Split(Request.QueryString("hlight")," ", -1)
End If

I recieve this error on my page:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d'
Type mismatch: '[string: "god"]'
/display.asp, line 265

This is the code starting at line 264

   intHlight = 0
    Do While (strHlight(intHlight))
     strBody = Replace(rsCommon("Body"), strHlight(intHlight), "<span class='hlight'>" & strHlight(intHlight) & "</span>")
     intHlight = intHlight + 1
    Loop

Any ideas?

Replies:

Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 29 June 2004 at 1:37pm

Well, the error is pretty self-explanatory. You are getting an error due to the data type. Try casting it to the proper data type, like CStr for Strings or CInt for Integers.