Access asp variables in java script

Asp variable is crated and assigned value "hello"
<%
dim variableinasp
variableinasp ="hello"
%>
we can access asp variables "variableinasp " in javascript as shown below

script language="javascript"
var variableinjs =<%=variableinasp %>; //acessing variableinasp in javascript
alert(variableinjs );
/script