Passing arguments to vbscript

[RealGazza]

Hi

I am writing a little script using vbscript to perform a number of actions on some files I have. Now, I want to be able to pass a few arguments to this script.

If I was using batch, I could do 'mybatch.bat Arg1 Arg2' and refer to these with %1 and %2 within the script.

Is this possible to do within vbscript, e.g.
cscript myvbs.vbs Arg1 arg2

If so, how would I refer to these from within the script?

Thanks for your help
GWG

 

[RealGazza]

A little more research and I found

WScript.Arguments

A collection of the arguments passed to the script.

Cheers
GWG

 

[dilettante]

This is a bigger topic than you might think. You really need to consult the WSH documentation.

One link to the web version of this doc is:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/wslrfitemproperty.asp

This gives one way to retrieve one kind of command-line parameter. WSH supports both named and unnamed parameters:

/in:arg <-named
&quot;c:\my\fle.txt&quot; <- unnamed


There are even XML elements you can define in a WSH script for command-line arguments (parameters):

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/wslrfnamedelement.asp

This even lets you build &quot;command line help&quot; (using /?) into your script without much coding.

The simplest example might be:

For i = 0 to WScript.Arguments.Count-1
    WScript.Echo WScript.Arguments.Unnamed(i)
next i

Where each &quot;i&quot; indexed item corresponds to your old-style %1, %2, etc. except that these are 0-based as shown above.

Note that this gives both the named & unnamed arguments. You get at them separately via the objects:

WScript.WshNamed
WScript.WshUnnamed