Multi-line string in an If statement

Okay here's the deal. I'm working in a situation where my company is using vbscript during a phase of server side scripting.

One phase that occurs earlier than the vbscript prints variables directly into the vbscript. So we have something that looks like this:

If "<%some html code that will be inserted%>" <> "" Then

SomeVariable = SomeValue

End If

The problem occurs when the code to be inserted spans multiple lines. For example:

<p>One paragraph.</p>

<p>Another paragraph.</p>


Will get inserted, causing the following vbscript to be executed:


If "<p>One paragraph.</p>

<p>Another paragraph.</p>" <> "" Then

some_variable = some_value

End If


Since the code is being printed in, it doesn't preserve the newline characters, causing an Unterminated string constant error.

Okay--now my question: is there anything in vbscript that is equivalent to python's triple quotes (""") that allow multiple lines to be treated as one single string?

ie (in python):


"""
This is one line.

This is another line.

But it's all part of the same string.
"""


I've been scouring google, and I haven't gotten anywhere, or maybe there's a term that I don't know that I haven't searched for.

since you are checking for an empty value why not use this :
<%
dim temp = "some html code that will be inserted"
If  len(trim(temp))  >  0 Then

SomeVariable = SomeValue

End If
%>

The problem with that is

dim temp= "<%some html code that will be inserted%>"

will become

dim temp= "<p>One paragraph.</p>

<p>Another paragraph.</p>"

which will still result in an error, since it expects the quote at the end of the line...

how are you passing in the html ?

it won't throw an error if it comes through as a variable .