VBScript to find text and then change value in text file

[anupamdewan]

Hey Guys,

It might be a very easy question for you guys but I am unable to find anything useful about this on the web.


This is what I want to do..

1. Check whether folder exists or not (C:\Program Files\abc) and throw error if doesnt exists

2. Read a text file from abc folder and search for a string XYZ.

3. Check if value of XYZ=0 (if exists GOTO Step 4) and if not (say XYZ=100) then change it to XYZ=0

4. Run executable C:\Program Files\abc\test.exe


Any help regarding this will be really appreciated.

 

[Geates]

Well, it looks like you've got some basic psuedocode. The way I would do this is to open two files and copy content from one file to the other line by line; processing the data in between. There is a plethora of information on the web that tells you how to do this. Here's a good place to start

http://raqxtr.sstar.com/caspdoc/html/vbscript_language_reference.htm

This can be accomplished in just a few lines of code.

- Geates