invalid procedure call or argument left - asp-classic

I am facing the following error:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0005'
Invalid procedure call or argument: 'left'
/scheduler/App.asp, line 16
The line is:
point1 = left(point0,i-1)
This code works perfectly in another server, but now on another server it is showing this error. I can guess it has to do with system or IIS settings or may be something else but its nothing with code (as its works fine in another server).

If i is equal to zero then this will call Left() with -1 as the length parameter. This will result in an Invalid procedure call or argument error. Verify that i >= 0.

Just experienced this problem myself - a script running seamlessly for many months suddenly collapsed with this error. It seems that the scripting engine falls over itself for whatever reason and string functions cease being able to handle in-function calculations.
I appreciate it's been quite a while since this question was asked, but in case anyone encounters this in the future...
Replace
point1 = left(point0, i-1)
with
j = i-1
point1 = left(point0, j)
... and it will work.
Alternatively, simply re-boot the server (unfortunately, simply re-starting the WWW service won't fix it).

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Requests(url) is having after 5 iteration

I am attempting to run a webscraping algo on indeed using beautifulSoup and loop through the different pages. However, after 2-6 iterations, the requests.get(url) hangs and stops finding the next page. I have read that it might do something with the server being blocked but that would have blocked the original requests and it also says online that Indeed allows for web scraping. I have also heard that I should set a header but I am unsure how to do that. I am running on the latest version of safari and MacOs 12.4.
A solution I came up with, thought this does not answer the question specifically, is by using a try expect statement and setting a timeout value to the request. Once the timeout value is reached, it enters the try except statement, sets a boolean value, and then continues the loop and try again. Code is inserted below.
while(i < 10):
url = get_url('software intern', '', i)
print("Parsing Page Number:" + str(i + 1))
error = False
try:
response = requests.get(url, timeout = 10)
except requests.exceptions.Timeout as err:
error = True
if error:
print("Trying to connect to webpage again")
continue
i += 1
I am leaving the question as unanswered for now however as I still don't know the root cause of this issue and this solution is just a workaround.

Sage TypeError positive characteristics not allowed in symbolic computations

I am new to sage and have got a code (link to code) which should run.
I am still getting an error message in the decoding part. The error trace looks like this:
in decode(y)
--> sigma[i+1+1] = sigma[i+1]*(z)\
-(delta[i+1]/delta[mu+1])*z^(i-mu)*sigma[mu+1]*(z);
in sage.structure.element.Element.__mul__
if BOTH_ARE_ELEMNT(cl):
--> return coercion_model.bin_op(left, right, mul)
in sage.structure.coerce.CoercionModel_cache_maps.bin_op
--> action = self.get_action(xp,yp,op,x,y)
...... some more traces (don't actually know if they are important)
TypeError: positive characteristics not allowed in symbolic computations
Does anybody know if there is something wrong in this code snipped? Due to previous errors, I changed the following to get to where I am at the moment:
.coeffs() changed to .coefficients(sparse=False) due to a warning message.
in the code line sigma[i+1+1] = sigma[i+1](z)\
-(delta[i+1]/delta[mu+1])*z^(i-mu)*sigma[mu+1](z); where the error occurs, i needed to insert * eg. sigma[i+1]*(z)
I would be grateful for any guess what could be wrong!
Your issue is that you are multiplying things not of characteristic zero (like elements related to Phi.<x> = GF(2^m)) with elements of symbolic computation like z which you have explicitly defined as a symbolic variable
Phi.<x> = GF(2^m)
PR = PolynomialRing(Phi,'z')
z = var('z')
Basically, the z you get from PR is not the same one as from var('z'). I recommend naming it something else. You should be able to access this with PR.gen() or maybe PR(z).
I'd be able to be more detailed, but I encourage you next time to paste a fully (non-)working example; trying to slog through a big worksheet is not the easiest thing to track all this down. Finally, good luck, hope Sage ends up being useful for you!

Qt error is printed on the console; how to see where it originates from?

I'm getting this on the console in a QML app:
QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (0.000000), must be greater than 0
The app is not crashing so I can't use the debugger to get a backtrace for the exception. How do I see where the error originates from?
If you know the function the warning occurs in (in this case, QFont::setPointSizeF()), you can put a breakpoint there. Following the stack trace will lead you to the code that calls that function.
If the warning doesn't include the name of the function and you have the source code available, use git grep with part of the warning to get an idea of where it comes from. This approach can be a bit of trial and error, as the code may span more than one line, etc, and so you might have to try different parts of the string.
If the warning doesn't include the name of the function, you don't have the source code available and/or you don't like the previous approach, use the QT_MESSAGE_PATTERN environment variable:
QT_MESSAGE_PATTERN="%{function}: %{message}"
For the full list of variables at your disposal, see the qSetMessagePattern() docs:
%{appname} - QCoreApplication::applicationName()
%{category} - Logging category
%{file} - Path to source file
%{function} - Function
%{line} - Line in source file
%{message} - The actual message
%{pid} - QCoreApplication::applicationPid()
%{threadid} - The system-wide ID of current thread (if it can be obtained)
%{qthreadptr} - A pointer to the current QThread (result of QThread::currentThread())
%{type} - "debug", "warning", "critical" or "fatal"
%{time process} - time of the message, in seconds since the process started (the token "process" is literal)
%{time boot} - the time of the message, in seconds since the system boot if that can be determined (the token "boot" is literal). If the time since boot could not be obtained, the output is indeterminate (see QElapsedTimer::msecsSinceReference()).
%{time [format]} - system time when the message occurred, formatted by passing the format to QDateTime::toString(). If the format is not specified, the format of Qt::ISODate is used.
%{backtrace [depth=N] [separator="..."]} - A backtrace with the number of frames specified by the optional depth parameter (defaults to 5), and separated by the optional separator parameter (defaults to "|"). This expansion is available only on some platforms (currently only platfoms using glibc). Names are only known for exported functions. If you want to see the name of every function in your application, use QMAKE_LFLAGS += -rdynamic. When reading backtraces, take into account that frames might be missing due to inlining or tail call optimization.
On an unrelated note, the %{time [format]} placeholder is quite useful to quickly "profile" code by qDebug()ing before and after it.
I think you can use qInstallMessageHandler (Qt5) or qInstallMsgHandler (Qt4) to specify a callback which will intercept all qDebug() / qInfo() / etc. messages (example code is in the link). Then you can just add a breakpoint in this callback function and get a nice callstack.
Aside from the obvious, searching your code for calls to setPointSize[F], you can try the following depending on your environment (which you didn't disclose):
If you have the debugging symbols of the Qt libs installed and are using a decent debugger, you can set a conditional breakpoint on the first line in QFont::setPointSizeF() with the condition set to pointSize <= 0. Even if conditional breakpoints don't work you should still be able to set one and step through every call until you've found the culprit.
On Linux there's the tool ltrace which displays all calls of a binary into shared libs, and I suppose there's something similar in the M$ VS toolbox. You can grep the output for calls to setPointSize directly, but of course this won't work for calls within the lib itself (which I guess could be the case when it handles the QML internally).

R Package IBrokers placeOrder() function fails

I'm using the package: IBrokers. It works well for me when I request historical data. Also the call to reqAccountUpdates() works well.
I am having problems with this script:
# myscript.r
.libPaths("rpackages")
library(IBrokers)
tws2 = twsConnect(2)
print('Attempting BUY')
mytkr = twsFuture("ES","GLOBEX","201412")
myorderid = sample(1001:3001, 1)
IBrokers:::.placeOrder(tws2, mytkr, twsOrder(myorderid, "BUY", "1", "MKT"))
twsDisconnect(tws2)
Sometimes the above script works okay. Usually though it fails. When it fails, it seems to connect okay.
Then I see this in my TWS console:
03:47:45:581 JTS-EServerSocket-290: [2:47:71:1:0:0:0:ERR] Message type -1. Socket I/O error -
03:47:45:581 JTS-EServerSocket-290: Anticipated error
jextend.d: Socket I/O error -
at jextend.sc.b(sc.java:364)
at jextend.ch.sb(ch.java:1534)
at jextend.ch.run(ch.java:1390)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:196)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:122)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:210)
at jextend.xh.d(xh.java:45)
at jextend.sc.c(sc.java:579)
at jextend.sc.r(sc.java:227)
at jextend.af.a(af.java:232)
at jextend.sc.f(sc.java:650)
at jextend.pd.a(pd.java:822)
at jextend.sc.b(sc.java:358)
... 3 more
03:47:45:583 JTS-EServerSocket-290: [2:47:71:1:0:0:0:ERR] Socket connection for client{2} has closed.
03:47:45:583 JTS-EWriter14-291: [2:47:71:1:0:0:0:ERR] Unable write to socket client{2} -
03:47:45:584 JTS-EServerSocketNotifier-288: Terminating
Can you offer any ideas on how you would wrestle with this issue?
One other piece of info:
I think the call to reqIds() may be necessary. Sometimes reqIds() would return an id not high enough. Then, I'd use it and placeOrder() would fail. So, I call reqIds() but then use Sys.time() to give me an id which is larger than the last ID I used.
Another problem may have been some code-text I copied out of a PowerPoint. Some of the code-characters may have been corrupt.
The main problem was orderid.
I need to be careful how I generate orderid.
Also I may have moused in bad characters from a powerpoint preso which had an example.
I posted some code which works in a comment in this thread.
Dan

Vendors black box function can only be called successfully once

(first question here, sorry if I am breaking a piece of etiquette)
My site is running on an eCommerce back end provider that I subscribe to. They have everything in classic ASP. They have a black box function called import_products that I use to import a given text file into my site's database.
The problem is that if I call the function more than once, something breaks. Here is my example code:
for blah = 1 to 20
thisfilename = "fullcatalog_" & blah & ".csv"
Response.Write thisfilename & "<br>"
Response.Flush
Call Import_Products(3,thisfilename,1)
Next
Response.End
The first execution of the Import_Products function works fine. The second time I get:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0009'
Subscript out of range: 'i'
The filenames all exist. That part is fine. There are no bugs in my calling code. I have tried checking the value of "i" before each execution. The first time the value is blank, and before the second execution the value is "2". So I tried setting it to null during each loop iteration, but that didn't change the results at all.
I assume that the function is setting a variable or opening a connection during its execution, but not cleaning it up, and then not expecting it to already be set the second time. Is there any way to find out what this would be? Or somehow reset the condition back to nothing so that the function will be 'fresh'?
The function is in an unreadable include file so I can't see the code. Obviously a better solution would be to go with the company support, and I have a ticket it in with them, but it is like pulling teeth to get them to even acknowledge that there is a problem. Let alone solve it.
Thanks!
EDIT: Here is a further simplified example of calling the function. The first call works. The second call fails with the same error as above.
thisfilename = "fullcatalog_testfile.csv"
Call Import_Products(3,thisfilename,1)
Call Import_Products(3,thisfilename,1)
Response.End
The likely cause of the error are the two numeric parameters for the Import_Products subroutine.
Import_Products(???, FileName, ???)
The values are 3 and 1 in your example but you never explain what they do or what they are documented to do.
EDIT Since correcting the vender subroutine is impossible, but it always works for the first time it's called lets use an HTTP REDIRECT instead of a FOR LOOP so that it technically only gets called once per page execution.
www.mysite.tld/import.asp?current=1&end=20
curr = CInt(Request.QueryString("current"))
end = CInt(Request.QueryString("end"))
If curr <= end Then
thisfilename = "fullcatalog_" & curr & ".csv"
Call Import_Products(3,thisfilename,1)
Response.Redirect("www.mysite.tld/import.asp?current=" & (curr + 1) & "&end=" & end)
End If
note the above was written inside my browser and is untested so syntax errors may exist.

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