Question

I’m declaring a string variable this way in classic ASP:

Dim i As String

And getting this error:

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0401' 

Expected end of statement
/retencion/Estadisticas/Detail.asp, line 10, column 6

Dim i As String
-----^

Why is that?

Answer 1

Classic ASP is written in VBScript and isn’t Visual Basic itself, so you can’t declare things as strings. Loosely typed I think is the phrase to describe it. Basically, you have to leave out the “as” and anything after it.

Try:

<%
Dim i

'you can now use the variable as you want.
i = "whatever"
%>