ASP/VBScript delimiters

ASP code is opened and closed with the use of delimiters.
When you are going to write ASP code use the opening tag <% and when you have finished writing your code use the closing tag %>

Note for our purposes it isn't important that you understand the following code example:

<% If request.form("name") <>"michael" then
response.write "your name is not michael"
End if %>

the delimiters do not need to be on the same line, the following code is the same as the above

<%
If request.form("name") <>"michael" then
response.write "your name is not michael"
End if
%>

To print out code use <%= or response.write

<%= "michael" %>

<% response.write "michael" %>

You will notice a similarity between the use of these delimiters and the opening < and > closing tags in HTML, well atleast I hope you do! :-)

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