[ic] How to assign a scratch variable to a VBScript Variable??

[interchange at tvcables.co.uk]

Quoting interchange at tvcables.co.uk:

> Quoting Joachim Leidinger <info at ebusiness-leidinger.de>:
> 
> > interchange at tvcables.co.uk wrote:
> > ....
> > > I set a scratch variable on my admin_view page, this works just fine and
> I
> > can 
> > > display the varible on the screen ok, so I know its been set.
> > > 
> > 
> > Try
> > 
> > > [set myname]
> > 
> > [seti myname]
> > 
> > > [loop-calc]
> > ...
> > > [/loop-calc]
> > > [/set]
> > 
> > [/seti]
> > 
> > > [scratch myname] - Display on screen ok!
> > >
> > > Now I have my scratch variable (myname) I am trying to use its value
> (text
> > 
> > > string) in some vbscript.
> > > 
> > > I am trying to set my vb variable (vbname) to be equal to the value of
> the
> > 
> > > scratch variable (myname), I thought this would work:
> > > 
> > > <script language="vbscript">
> > > dim vbname
> > > vbname = "[scratch myname]"
> > 
> > Make sure [seti myname] first and vb script is using *after* setting the 
> > myname var.
> > 
> > Hope that helps!
> > 
> > Joachim
> 
> Thanks for the reply, still no joy though, tried [set], [seti] and [tmp] none
> 
> make it work. The scratch variable is set immediately before the vbscript.
> The 
> script is ok as I can manually set the vbname, eg vbname="Andy" works fine, I
> 
> just cannot get vbname to pick up the value of the scratch variable....
> 
> Any more suggestions please?
> 

I think I may have found the problem, it looks like the scratch variable has a 
carriage return or line feed at the beginning and end of it, can that be 
removed with an extra perl line? Not very good with perl....

Thanks,
Andy.