HEELPBOOK - HOW TO EMBED VBSCRIPT IN CMD/BAT SCRIPT (VBSCRIPT VS. BATCH DOS) ############################## 

A leading colon in a batch file is ignored because it denotes a label; it is ignored in VBscript because it is a command separator. 

Thus the batch script can search itself for lines beginning with a colon and write them out to a temporary vbs file and then execute it.


############### EXAMPLE


@echo off

echo This is batch

:wscript.echo "This VBScript"

:wscript.echo "Today is " & day(date) & "-" & month(date) & "-" & year(date)

findstr "^:" "%~sf0">temp.vbs & cscript //nologo temp.vbs & del temp.vbs

echo This is batch again


############### THE RESULT


This is batch

This VBScript

Today is 21-4-2010

This is batch again


Maybe you want to use some GUI feature of wscript e.g. to get user input...


############### ANOTHER EXAMPLE


@echo off

:wscript.echo InputBox("Enter your name")

findstr "^:" "%~sf0">temp.vbs & for /f "delims=" %%N in ('cscript //nologo temp.vbs') do set name=%%N & del temp.vbs

echo You entered %name%




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Article Month: March
Article Date: 01/03/2013
Permalink: http://heelpbook.altervista.org/2013/how-to-embed-vbscript-in-cmdbat-script-vbscript-vs-batch-dos/
Source: http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php?topic=103686.0
Language: English

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