on the flip side

sleep deprivation + tanked on meds + the "other" pc:

this is content of the email i just sent off to my boss and co-worker:

PROBLEM SOLVED.

Please tell co-worker as soon as you've installed this file on the server, so that she can test it out. It works just fine on my side - quite fast, too.

And PLEASE note the time sent - it took me minutes to write the code, and about two hours to work around a known bug in VBScript (because I was SURE it was *my* fault!). I hope that's all my whining for the day.

the known bug / feature / whatever is that VBScript refuses to recognize a function like Left() or InStr() if there's any possibility that the argument contains a null value. no trust in the scripter AT ALL. so i had to rewrite all my loops to if statements contained within a manually controlled loop. that sucked.