Re: Returning a value from a VBScript

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
"thecomputerguy74" <rgblois@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1189682751.346860.293120@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have searched the web for this, and maybe I'm using the wrong search
terms. I am trying to figure out how to return a value from my
VBScript for use by another script, batch file, or other command. All
I ever seem to find is how to return a value from a function, which
does me now good.

Any help would be appreciated. I'm sure it's not difficult, but I
don't know how to do it.

Thank you.

thecomputerguy74


Try this extremely simplified example:
@echo off
MyScript.vbs
echo MyScript.vbs returned an ErrorLevel of %ErrorLevel%

MyScript.vbs could contain this line:
WScript.Quit(2007)


If you need more digits as errorlevel allows (AFAIK 16 bit signed integer)
you can parse standard output of cscript in a batch:

@echo off
echo wscript.echo date-1>tmp.vbs
for /f %%a in ('cscript tmp.vbs //Nologo') do set "yesterday=%%a"
echo Yesterday=%yesterday%
DEL tmp.vbs

This task is much more complicated in pure batch (albeit possible)

--
Greetings
Matthias
.

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