Is it possible to get the name of a variable?

For error trapping on an asp page, I'd like to print out the name of a
variable if I find it to be null, a zerolength string, etc...

for example:

aBadString = "a"

aBadString = ""

If CheckForZeroLengthString(aBadString) then
Response.write("The variable with a zero-length string is: " &
aBadString.name)

you can't do aBadString.name, so how do you get a variable's name?

Thanks,
Mike

Patrick
Fri Aug 13 03:29:42 CDT 2004

Hi Mike,

Just put the variable inside the quotationmarks:

Response.write("The variable with a zero-length string is: aBadString")

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"Mike" <mike_newsgroups@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> For error trapping on an asp page, I'd like to print out the name of a
> variable if I find it to be null, a zerolength string, etc...
>
> for example:
>
> aBadString = "a"
>
> aBadString = ""
>
> If CheckForZeroLengthString(aBadString) then
> Response.write("The variable with a zero-length string is: " &
> aBadString.name)
>
> you can't do aBadString.name, so how do you get a variable's name?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike