What you need is HTML Decode, though unfortunately ASP doesn’t include one. This function, found on ASP Nut, and modified heavily by me, should do what you need. I tested it as vbscript running on my local computer and it seemed to work well, even with Unicode symbols in the 1000+ range. Function HTMLDecode(sText) Dim … Read more
This error is because you cannot dim variables as something in particular in VBS. Said more explicitly the “Dim” statement is used without defining the variable type in VBScript because all variables in VBScript are automatically of type Variant. If you attempt to Dim a variable as anything, it will throw an error. Instead, you … Read more
The secret to using the common dialog from VBScript (or VBA or JScript, for that matter) is that you have to have its license installed on your machine. Certain development tools, such as Visual Basic 6, will install the license, but it’s also installed by the free Microsoft HTML Help Editor (this is a pretty … Read more
Your http is being blocked by a firewall from F5 Networks called Application Security Manager (ASM). It produces messages like: Please consult with your administrator. Your support ID is: xxxxxxxxxxxx So your application is passing some data that for some reason ASM detects as a threat. Give the support id to your network engineer to … Read more
The & operator does string concatenation, that is, forces operands to be converted to strings (like calling CStr on them first). +, in its turn, forces addition if one of the expressions is numeric. For example: 1 & 2 gives you 12, whereas 1 + 2 “1” + 2 1 + “2” give you 3. … Read more
For replace you can use vbCrLf: Replace(string, vbCrLf, “”) You can also use chr(13)+chr(10). I seem to remember in some odd cases that chr(10) comes before chr(13).
Set objFSO=CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) ‘ How to write file outFile=”c:\test\autorun.inf” Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(outFile,True) objFile.Write “test string” & vbCrLf objFile.Close ‘How to read a file strFile = “c:\test\file” Set objFile = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFile) Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream strLine= objFile.ReadLine Wscript.Echo strLine Loop objFile.Close ‘to get file path without drive letter, assuming drive letters are c:, d:, etc strFile=”c:\test\file” s … Read more
To be safe, you should use the proper APIs in Powershell (or VBScript) Using PowerShell: [Environment]::GetFolderPath(“Desktop”) Copy something using Powershell: Copy-Item $home\*.txt ([Environment]::GetFolderPath(“Desktop”)) Here is a VBScript-example to get the desktop path: dim WSHShell, desktop, pathstring, objFSO set objFSO=CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) Set WSHshell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) desktop = WSHShell.SpecialFolders(“Desktop”) pathstring = objFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(desktop) WScript.Echo pathstring
LabelName doesn’t need to be a shell object, as it’s just a string. Then concatenate the string onto the run command and you are done. Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) Dim LabelName LabelName = InputBox(“Please Enter Label to check-out:”, _ “Create File”) oShell.run “cmd /K “”c:\Program Files (x86)\Borland\StarTeam Cross-Platform Client 2008 R2\stcmd.exe”” co -p bla:[email protected]:7777/bla/ -is … Read more
David, As a person new to Stack Overflow myself, I was happy to find this very comprehensive FAQ for Stack Exchange sites. See the 3rd question “Is there a limit on how many questions I can ask?” for an answer to your first inquiry. Regarding the heart of your question, I agree with @Ramhound that … Read more