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[UNCjigga]

wait, I thought the text-entry string was a text-type field and this guy's trying to change it to a numeric field. Doesn't look dumb if that's the case...though it would be easier to define the select variable as a number! Bah, I never got past high school coding meself really...

 

[bunker]

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: jumpr
I've only taken elementary C++, so I might not know what I'm talking about, but do you need 'break' statments when writing a case statement also?

It's ASP code, not C++ did you read the first post?

Right, I know. But I was wondering if ASP uses break statements just like C++. So you didn't really answer my question.

You can use a break in ASP, but it's not required.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: jumpr
I've only taken elementary C++, so I might not know what I'm talking about, but do you need 'break' statments when writing a case statement also?

It's ASP code, not C++ did you read the first post?

To be pedantic, ASP isn't a language

He's reassigning the variable to the integer literal as opposed to the string as VBScript has no data type other than a variant (VT_VARIANT). The string literal "1" is of variant type VT_BSTR, and the integer literal 1 is of variant type VT_INT. I guess he thought they were incompatible and thus used the explicit assignment.

Either way, it's completely idiotic because there's no need for conversion between either variant types, and even if there were he could've used CInt(). Btw, thanks for remining me why I dislke VBScript so much.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: gigapet
someone explain the humor

It's the equivelant of:

If this number is 1, make this number be 1.
If this number is 2, make this number be 2.
...
Up through 9...

It's worse than that, they're reassigning the value to the SAME VARIABLE.

Viper GTS

Well...converting from a string var to a numeric.

Oh wait...is this script? It's all variant anyway.

That's just teh l4m3!

 

[Mucman]

For the people that don't get it... the code is completely redundant... I could remove it from their code and I wouldn't affect the "logic" (who knows how logical their code is after seeing this) and it wouldn't change a thing.

think of it as IF statements

if ( x == 1) { x = 1; } for the C crowd.

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: manly
Nah, that isn't funny besides the laughing at someone elses's stupidity.

Since I don't know VB, is that actually completely redundant, or is it essentially converting a string to an integer?

It's a case statement. They're the same function in all languages that support it, only the syntax may be a little different.

Bah, you had to quote my pre-edited reply. ;P

I know how a case statement works, but what I initially missed was the variable being switched on is the same one being assigned to. So my question isn't relevant.

However, what I was asking is if this VB snippet was a dumb man's equivalent of C's atoi function.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: jumpr
I've only taken elementary C++, so I might not know what I'm talking about, but do you need 'break' statments when writing a case statement also?

It's ASP code, not C++ did you read the first post?

To be pedantic, ASP isn't a language

I didn't say it was.

 

[Mucman]

Oh... and the developer is a girl... she sounds quite cute on the phone too . Unfortunately, with this kind of coding, I'll have to pass

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: jumpr

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: jumpr
I've only taken elementary C++, so I might not know what I'm talking about, but do you need 'break' statments when writing a case statement also?

It's ASP code, not C++ did you read the first post?

Right, I know. But I was wondering if ASP uses break statements just like C++. So you didn't really answer my question.

Apparently not, since the code runs.

break statements aren't required in C or C++; in fact, it's quite helpful to fall through various case statements. e.g.:

switch (msg)
{
case WM_CLOSE:
case WM_DESTROY:
// handle both the same
}

Unfortunately most newer languages with syntactically similar switch constructs require an explicit break :disgust:

 

[skace]

But what I don't understand is... if that code works, why is it consuming all the CPU and RAM? That sounds more like an infinite loop. Does that case statement create some sort of infinite loop in the context that it is used?

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: jumpr
I've only taken elementary C++, so I might not know what I'm talking about, but do you need 'break' statments when writing a case statement also?

It's ASP code, not C++ did you read the first post?

To be pedantic, ASP isn't a language

I didn't say it was.

"ASP code"

ASP has no code.

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: skace
But what I don't understand is... if that code works, why is it consuming all the CPU and RAM? That sounds more like an infinite loop. Does that case statement create some sort of infinite loop in the context that it is used?

That's not the code that's breaking the server... What's breaking the server is mostly like some bad DB code ie :

On Error Resume Next

While not rs.EOF
'notice the lack of rs.MoveNext
Loop

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: skace
But what I don't understand is... if that code works, why is it consuming all the CPU and RAM? That sounds more like an infinite loop. Does that case statement create some sort of infinite loop in the context that it is used?

He just found that code in the .asp file.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: skace
But what I don't understand is... if that code works, why is it consuming all the CPU and RAM? That sounds more like an infinite loop. Does that case statement create some sort of infinite loop in the context that it is used?

I don't think that code broke the site. I think this is just a humorous aside.

amish

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: skace
But what I don't understand is... if that code works, why is it consuming all the CPU and RAM? That sounds more like an infinite loop. Does that case statement create some sort of infinite loop in the context that it is used?

It's not, it's just something he stumbled across in the course of his troubleshooting. If this kind of stuff is in there god only knows what else is there.

Viper GTS

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Mucman
Oh... and the developer is a girl... she sounds quite cute on the phone too . Unfortunately, with this kind of coding, I'll have to pass

So you'd rather hang out with an ugly geekgirl?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: jumpr
I've only taken elementary C++, so I might not know what I'm talking about, but do you need 'break' statments when writing a case statement also?

It's ASP code, not C++ did you read the first post?

To be pedantic, ASP isn't a language

I didn't say it was.

"ASP code"

ASP has no code.

If I was talking about Mozilla source code and said "browser code" would that imply that I thought "browser" was a specific language?

 

[gigapet]

should people have to get liscensed before they are allowed to code?

oh thats a whole thread in itself.

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Descartes

break statements aren't required in C or C++; in fact, it's quite helpful to fall through various case statements. e.g.:

switch (msg)
{
case WM_CLOSE:
case WM_DESTROY:
// handle both the same
}

There goes Descartes trying to prove his 1337-ness again.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: manly

Originally posted by: Descartes

break statements aren't required in C or C++; in fact, it's quite helpful to fall through various case statements. e.g.:

switch (msg)
{
case WM_CLOSE:
case WM_DESTROY:
// handle both the same
}

There goes Descartes trying to prove his 1337-ness again.

Nah, just proving the case for follow-through case statements

 

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: manly

Originally posted by: Descartes

break statements aren't required in C or C++; in fact, it's quite helpful to fall through various case statements. e.g.:

switch (msg)
{
case WM_CLOSE:
case WM_DESTROY:
// handle both the same
}

There goes Descartes trying to prove his 1337-ness again.

Nah, just proving the case for follow-through case statements

I used that behaviour when I was playing around with Win32 programming yet I'm still not 1337

I found a couple more case statements in the code! And lots of blah = Request("blah") with no error checking! The
site can probably be exploited using lots of SQL Injection techniques...

 

[AdamDuritz99]

LOL

peace
sean

 

[Mucman]

Oh wait! There's more!

The header and footer pages are all HTML... except they are ASP files full of :

Response.Write("
")
Response.Write(" some text")
Response.Write("</body>")

lol

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Mucman

Originally posted by: Descartes

Originally posted by: manly

Originally posted by: Descartes

break statements aren't required in C or C++; in fact, it's quite helpful to fall through various case statements. e.g.:

switch (msg)
{
case WM_CLOSE:
case WM_DESTROY:
// handle both the same
}

There goes Descartes trying to prove his 1337-ness again.

Nah, just proving the case for follow-through case statements

I used that behaviour when I was playing around with Win32 programming yet I'm still not 1337

I found a couple more case statements in the code! And lots of blah = Request("blah") with no error checking! The
site can probably be exploited using lots of SQL Injection techniques...

The lack of so many things in ASP with respect to validation (e.g. a lucid regular expressions engine) made such things like SQL injection pretty common. ASP.NET largely obviates the need for such checking the page validation facilities and server controls (e.g. RegularExpressionsValidator).

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Mucman

I used that behaviour when I was playing around with Win32 programming yet I'm still not 1337

I found a couple more case statements in the code! And lots of blah = Request("blah") with no error checking! The
site can probably be exploited using lots of SQL Injection techniques...

I find it funny everytime there's a discussion about outsourcing, how some people have to chime in and deride the low quality of overseas programmers (or other engineers, or tech workers).

I know this is but one example, but I think in many organizations, software developers would have some understanding that their overseas counter-parts are not necessarily weaker than some of their colleagues.