IP Calculator Final Version

[Bob Sneidar]

OK I think I have another script compilation. Given an IP address of 192.168..1

   set the itemDelimiter to “.”

   repeat for each item theOctet in theIPAddress
      if theOctet <0 or theOctet >255 then
         return "ERROR: Each IP Address octet must be a number between 0 and 255. " & \
               "(ipaddress = " & theIPAddress & ")"
      end if
   end repeat

Should return an error on the third pass. It does not. Even though empty is in fact less than 0, it passes the condition! Oh but wait, it gets better. 

I stepped through the code, and at first it passed, but then I put in a statement just before the condition:

      put theOctet is empty

On the third pass it put true into the message box then FAILED THE TEST! Subsequent calls to the function continued to fail! Then I stopped stepping and recompiled the script and saved it. IT STARTED PASSING AGAIN!!!!!

This is some crazy crap! The same code should not be behaving differently depending on whether or not I am stepping or not. 

Bob S