Ok i'm calling a function and passing it one variable this works fine and dandy. Pass it another it falls flat on its face why?

the code i'm using to send to the function is:

multiple(Miles,VehcileType)

i thought it might be a problem with my function so i made a very simple function. which is:

 
function multiple(one, two)
response.write one
response.write two
end function

Both Miles and VehicleType work when set as one argument but not when sent together?

can you help

knowing what the error is would be useful

Do to they way the server is set up i dont get useful error message i just get page not found.

all i can tell you is if i pass either one through alone it works pass two together it doesnt

either with the page not found error or, the message the was an error at the the server.

If you get Page Not Found then it's probably not likely to be the script causing the problem... it's more likely to be that the script isn't there or you're typing in the URL wrong.

If it's an Internal Server error however, have you tried going into the advanced options in IE and turning off 'Show friendly HTTP error messages'? It might be the browser that's set up to do that, not the server.

I notices you spelt "VehcileType" wrong, shouldn't it be "VehicleType"? If you have option explicit turned on, this would cause a problem.

Other then that, follow Minaki's adivce to get a better error message.

Ok thanks for all your help people but as i mentioned i found the trouble was that if was passing two or more objects to the function i had to use 'CALL'

so the error was
"Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a0414' Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub"

with that error you can simply use

multiple Miles,VehicleType

or use a dummy variable

dummy = multiple(Miles,VehicleType)

or as you found use call sub/function

and it's also good to note that a function in VB is required to RETURN A VALUE; your function does not...

function myFunc()
myFunc = "some value"
end function

dim myVar
myVar = myFunc() ' now contains "some value"

otherwise you want a sub routine

sub mySub
' do stuff
end sub

' to execute
mySub

a function in asp vbscript is not required to return a value, a return value is optional

Originally Posted by chrishirst

a function in asp vbscript is not required to return a value, a return value is optional

hmm, u're right there. had to test it; I was certain I ran into that error before where it threw an error because I wasn't returning a value... I'll think about what it was. good stuff.

the error is caused when you do not have an assignment for the returned value (if any) and use parantheses with more than one parameter.

using
retValue = Function(param1, param2)
would be ok

but Function(param1, param2) would not