how to parse name value pairs in querystring

[ozzii]

Hi,

Does anybody know how to parse the name value pairs in a querystring contained in a variable with asp?

for those of you who might be confused, what i am trying to do is basically I have a recordset paging script generated for a search page. I want to read all the search criteria in the querystring of this paging script into one variable and then parse it at the other end.

The idea behind this is to avoid displaying the entire querystring in the url bar as the user navigates from one page to another. Secondly it will prevent such a large query string from being truncated since the GET method employed in querystring can only post a limited amount of data.

Any suggested will be appreciated

[iam_clint]

use a delimiter

such as a character that isn't used often | or ` or ² if you want it to be that


then split it by those.
blah.asp?qs=clint|whoever
var qs = request("qs")
qs = split(qs, "|")
'qs(0) = clint
'qs(1) = whoever
for each item in qs
response.write item
next


understand?