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Yeah, but I don't understand what you mean and I got no examples to help me. So I still can't do it.

Can you provide me with an example? If it's not too much of trouble for you.

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It looks as though what you are trying to do is run a default file name if you don't get input from the user. If that's the case then you really don't need to even have a loop. I don't write a lot of asp and all of my code is on another machine so fill in with the asp terms as needed.


You could do something like this.

Function GetFileName(Prompt as string) as string

	GetFileName = InputBox(Prompt, "Name Entry")


End Function

Dim sPrompt as string
Dim sFileName as string

sPrompt = "Enter a file name to process"
sFileName = GetFileName(sPrompt)

If sFileName = "" then
   sPrompt = "File Name cannot be empty.  PLease enter a file name"
   sFileName = GetFileName(sPrompt)
   If sFileName = "" then
	   sFileName = DefaultfileName
   end if
end if

ProcessFile

An example of recursion would be the following where GetFileName is called from within GetFileName

Function GetFileName(Prompt) as string
	Dim sFileName as string
	Dim index as integer
	
	index = 0
	sFileName = ""
	 
	Do while sFileName = "" or index < 5
		 sFileName = InputBox(Prompt, "Name Entry")
		 index = index + 1
	Loop
End Function

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It looks as though what you are trying to do is run a default file name if you don't get input from the user. If that's the case then you really don't need to even have a loop. I don't write a lot of asp and all of my code is on another machine so fill in with the asp terms as needed.


You could do something like this.

Function GetFileName(Prompt as string) as string

	GetFileName = InputBox(Prompt, "Name Entry")


End Function

Dim sPrompt as string
Dim sFileName as string

sPrompt = "Enter a file name to process"
sFileName = GetFileName(sPrompt)

If sFileName = "" then
   sPrompt = "File Name cannot be empty.  PLease enter a file name"
   sFileName = GetFileName(sPrompt)
   If sFileName = "" then
	   sFileName = DefaultfileName
   end if
end if

ProcessFile

An example of recursion would be the following where GetFileName is called from within GetFileName

Function GetFileName(Prompt) as string
	Dim sFileName as string
	Dim index as integer
	
	index = 0
	sFileName = ""
	 
	Do while sFileName = "" or index < 5
		 sFileName = InputBox(Prompt, "Name Entry")
		 index = index + 1
	Loop
End Function

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Thank you for the help.
It's really helpfull for my future scripts.
I'm not using it in this taskbooter program, because it's now finished in a different way.