RE: Need guru to help with something on the ASP-VBscript-MS Access axis

["Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

Margaret,

Thanks for your comments. Are you saying that a text field cannot contain text? That flies in the face of common sense.

It turned out that the problem was internal to HTML (maybe a language problem, maybe a browser problem--haven't looked into it yet) and had nothing to do with Access, ASP, MS Jet SQL, or VB Script. I found an ugly workaround that I am _not_ proud of. But in any case, I'm chalking this one up to experience and moving on to the next challenge.

Dick

"Cekis, Margaret" wrote:

>Over the years I'me done a lot of documentation for database applications of
>various kinds, and although the newer database products are more flexible
>about formats and input that the old mainframe apps were, they all still
>seem to abhor spaces within a field. 
>
>Spaces, commas, and sometimes slashes are taken to be default field
>delimiters in data strings.  Also, all fields either have to be defined to
>default to zero, or data entries must never skip a field, which results in
>data being entered in the wrong field (and probably in the wrong format,
>such as a name in a number field, etc.) 
>

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