Programming Web with ASP/VBS is like paddling a canoe... with a tennis racket.
I am so frustrated. (explanation for all of you geeks out there) I have been programming ASP pages and discovered that a certain instance of a variant (root of all evil) in VBS can be:
- neither an object, Null, nothing, zip, nada
- nor have any length, not nothing, not zero, not a Null length.
I cannot detect it with any comparison, as if somebody erased all reference of it from the memory.
I call it varBlackHole.
Recipe for this varBlackHole?
Pull a Null from MS SQL, stuff it into an Scripting.Dictionary Object (e.g. objDict("myDBNull") ), pass that reference to a function as regular variant (e.g. funFunCheckValue( objDict("myDBNull") ) ).
Function funFunCheckValue( varBlackHole )
' Hello World! I am a varBlackHole variant and I am absolutely useless!
funFunCheckValue = varBlackHole
End Function
Function funFunCheckValue( varBlackHole )
' Hello World! I am a varBlackHole variant and I am absolutely useless!
funFunCheckValue = varBlackHole
End Function
