Building the project in Classic ASP
The following is a Classic ASP program that reads a CSV file of students and grades and then stores the data in a dictionary with a list of grades for each student. Here’s a breakdown of the code:
- The code starts with
<%and ends with%>, which indicates that it is embedded within an ASP code block. - The
fso,inputFile,studentGrades,line,fields,studentName,grade,grades, andgradeListvariables are declared using theDimstatement to hold various data during processing. - The
Server.CreateObjectmethod creates an instance of theScripting.FileSystemObjectandScripting.Dictionaryobjects (fsoandstudentGrades). - The
Server.MapPathmethod is used to get the physical path of thestudents.csvfile relative to the server’s filesystem. - The
OpenTextFilemethod of thefsoobject is called to open thestudents.csvfile for reading. - A loop is initiated using the
Do Untilstatement to read each line from the...