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I can answer questions in the following areas: ASP.Net, VB.Net, C#.Net, Microsoft Access and SQL Server. These are the technologies I use in my day-to-day work. As such, I am very confident and happy to assist

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You are here: Experts > Computing/Technology > Business Software > Active Server Pages Programming (ASP) > Syntax error I can't figure out...

Topic: Active Server Pages Programming (ASP)

Expert: Boster Sibande
Date: 1/30/2007
Subject: Syntax error I can't figure out...

Question
The web page is at http://hwc.ccc.edu/careerfair/ but the syntax error is in the ASP processing page where create the body of the email message that the processing page generates (see below for code...do you see a syntax error??):

body = "Listed below is a 'summary' of your Spring 2007 HWC Career Fair Online Registration Information for April 26, 2007 career fair: " & " " &_
 "Student First Name: " & Request.Form("fname") & " " &_
 "Student Last Email: " & Request.Form("lname") & " " &_
 "Student Address: " & Request.Form("address1") & "', '" & Request.Form("address2") & "', '" & Request.Form("city") & "' '" & Request.Form("state") & "', '" & Request.Form("zipcode") & " " &_
 "Student Email Address: " & Request.Form("email") & " " &_
 "Student Phone #: " & Request.Form("phone") & " " &_
 "Student Course Major: " & Request.Form("major") & " " &_
 "Student Gender: " & Request.Form("gender") & " " &_
 "Student Academic Status: " & Request.Form("astatus") & " " &_
 "Student Is A U.S. Citizen? " & Request.Form("citizen") & " "
 If Request.Form("ecode") <> "" Then
 "Student Ethnicity Is? " & Request.Form("ecode") & " "
 Else
 "Student Ethnicity Chosen By Student: " & Request.Form("other") & " "
 End If
 "Is The Student Currently Working? " & Request.Form("working") & " "
 If Request.Form("working") = "Yes" Then
 "What Is Student's Current Work Status (Full-Time/Part-Time)? " & Request.Form("workstatus") & " "
 Else
 "What Is Student's Current Work Status (Full-Time/Part-Time)? Student currently isn't employed full-time or part-time." & " "
 End If
 "Student's Current Job Title: " & Request.Form("cjtitle") & " " &_
 "Start Date of Students Current Job: " & Request.Form("csdate") & " " &_
 "Salary of Students Current Job: " & Request.Form("csalary") & " " &_
 "Company Name Where Student Currently Works At: " & Request.Form("cjcname") & " " &_
 "Company Address Where Student Currently Works At: " & Request.Form("cjcaddress") & " " &_
 "City/State/Zipcode Of Company Student Currently Works At: " & Request.Form("csz1") & " " &_
 "Students Previous Job Title: " & Request.Form("pjtitle") & " " &_
 "Start Date of Students Previous Job: " & Request.Form("psdate") & " " &_
 "Salary of Students Previous Job: " & Request.Form("psalary") & " " &_
 "Company Name Where Student Previously Worked At: " & Request.Form("pjcname") & " " &_
 "Company Address Where Student Previously Worked At: " & Request.Form("pjcaddress") & " " &_
 "City/State/Zipcode Of Company Student Previously Worked At: " & Request.Form("csz2") & " " &_
 "Type of Work Student Currently Seeking? " & Request.Form("twseeking") & " " &_
 "Student Is Seeking Part-Time or Full-Time Work? " & Request.Form("tywkstatus") & " " &_
 "Interviewing Skills Workshop #1 Date Preference: " & Request.Form("workshop1") & " " &_
 "Interviewing Skills Workshop #2 Date Preference: " & Request.Form("workshop2") & " " &_
 "Resume Writing Workshop #1 Date Preference: " & Request.Form("workshop3") & " " &_
 "Resume Writing Workshop #2 Date Preference: " & Request.Form("workshop4") & " " &_
 "Date Online Registration Submitted: " & datetoday & " " &_
 "Time Online Registration Submitted: " & timetoday & " " &_
 "James Sloss Jr. - Harold Washington College Student Success Center Program Director, 312.553.3159 (jsloss@ccc.edu)"

Answer
The reason is that when starting a new line you are using &_. You need to put a space between & and _. For example, instead of
"Student First Name: " & Request.Form("fname") & " " &_
Yoy should write
"Student First Name: " & Request.Form("fname") & " " & _

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