Vista - How to read a user input value from command line and store it in a variable?

I would like to read a user input from command line and store it in a variable aaa.

In good ol' DOS batch scripts there is a command:

set /p aaa="Please enter value: "

How do I do this in VBscript?

Is there a way to define a default value? In other words if the user simply hits RETURN
the value in variable aaa should not be empty but contain instead e.g. "unknown" or 0 (=zero)

How do I define such a default value in VBscript?

Again: the input should not be entered in a GUI based entry field but at the command prompt.

Tony

"Tony Bansten" <tonytony@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:49c9f0be$0$31862$9b4e6d93@xxxxxx-online.net...Strange . . . for a long time people have been complaining about the
unfriendly black-screen user input method offered by set /p, and now you
wish to use precisely this unfriendly technique . . . AFAIK, VB Script has
no such facility. Its input tool is, as you probably know, the InputBox
method.

A rather clumsy way to meet your requirement would be to use a batch file
that does two things:
- It uses set /p to prompt the user for an input.
- It writes the response to a text file.

Your VB Script will also do two things:
- If invokes the batch file like so:
oWshShell.Run "d:\temp\test.bat", 3, True
- It reads the input from the text file.

I think the InputBox method would be a lot more elegant.

"Tony Bansten" <tonytony@xxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
49c9f0be$0$31862$9b4e6d93@xxxxxx-online.net...I hope that we are not doing your homework for you

Run this with the cscript shell

Dim StdIn, StdOut
Set StdIn = WScript.StdIn
Set StdOut = WScript.StdOut
StdOut.WriteLine "Please enter value"
str = StdIn.ReadLine
if len(str)=0 then str="0"

"Tony Bansten" <tonytony@xxxxxx> schriebIs there a reason why VBscript questions are also sent to the VB.Net group
lately? I'd just like to know. They have little in common - saying this
without really knowing VBscript.


Armin

Check out the console application at this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/bb964686.aspx

It's under the "Application Samples" folder.

It's a good example of how to read and write to the console.

-Taco

Tony Bansten wrote:

"Tony Bansten" <tonytony@xxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
49c9f0be$0$31862$9b4e6d93@xxxxxx-online.net...I hope that we are not doing your homework for you

Run this with the cscript shell

Dim StdIn, StdOut
Set StdIn = WScript.StdIn
Set StdOut = WScript.StdOut
StdOut.WriteLine "Please enter value"
str = StdIn.ReadLine
if len(str)=0 then str="0"