Vista - New to VBS..

HI everyone...

I am just starting out learning VBS...so I'd appreciate any help with
this...

Is there a way in VBS to see each line as it executes? Similar to ECHO
ON in bat files, I'd like to see each line as it executes and the
values that are being set in the variables.

Thank you

<nickjax01@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:39861fd6-0c41-441b-89a1-bf551c24c5cc@xxxxxxThere certainly is nothing builtin that does this, and I don't know of any
environment that helps. It could be possible to create a script that reads
lines from another a very simple script, echos each line, then executes it.
However, complications quickly arise when statements cannot be run in
isolation one line at a time. For example lines continued on several lines.
And For Each, If Then, Do Until and other loops would be impossible. Also, I
see no way to show the values of variables.

A quick try follows. First an example script that can be executed one line
at a time:
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Option Explicit

Dim lngValue1, lngValue2, lngValue3

lngValue1 = 3
lngValue2 = 5
lngValue3 = lngValue1 + lngValue3
Wscript.Echo lngValue3
=======
Then, if the above is saved in the file c:\Scripts\Example.vbs, the
following VBScript program will read each line, echo it to the console, and
execute each line:
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Option Explicit

Dim strScriptFile, objFSO, objFile, strLine

Const ForReading = 1

' Specify the VBScript program to run.
strScriptFile = "c:\Scripts\Example.vbs"

' Open the file.
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strScriptFile, ForReading)

' Read each line of the file.
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
strLine = objFile.ReadLine
' Echo the line to the console.
Wscript.Echo strLine
' Run the line.
Execute strLine
Loop

' Clean up.
objFile.Close
=======
If run at a command prompt with cscript, the output would be:
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Option Explicit

Dim lngValue1, lngValue2, lngValue3

lngValue1 = 3
lngValue2 = 5
lngValue3 = lngValue1 + lngValue3
Wscript.Echo lngValue3
3
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However, I believe there are just too many complications to make this
workable. Maybe someone knows how to run VBScript programs in VB IDE, for
example.

--
Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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"Richard Mueller [MVP]" <rlmueller-nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in
message news:ugSok95lJHA.1388@xxxxxxThird party IDE's exist, for example, PrimalScript from Sapien Technologies.
Not sure if any of these can be set to display the staement as it is being
executed, however, ECHO ON in batch files is an extremely limited debugging
tool, and it cannot display variable values unless you code it to do so.

/Al

Or use a script debugger such as Visual Studio. Even the free versions can
do this I believe. You can then step through the code line by line.

--

Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)

http://joe.fawcett.name

"Al Dunbar" <alandrub@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for all of your suggestions!


"Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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