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
, andgradeList
variables are declared using theDim
statement to hold various data during processing. - The
Server.CreateObject
method creates an instance of theScripting.FileSystemObject
andScripting.Dictionary
objects (fso
andstudentGrades
). - The
Server.MapPath
method is used to get the physical path of thestudents.csv
file relative to the server’s filesystem. - The
OpenTextFile
method of thefso
object is called to open thestudents.csv
file for reading. - A loop is initiated using the
Do Until
statement to read each line from the...