How to set the return value from cscript.exe

[Richard Muller]

Hi All,

I invoke cscript.exe (along with an argument which is the name of a vbs
script) from within a Ruby script (Ruby is sort of an object-orient Perl,
plus more). I capture the return value from cscript.exe and print it.
What I get is a two-line output:

Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.

Is there any way for me to return a string of my choice programmatically
with a .vbs command? I don't see any "return" statement documented for .vbs

Thanks in advance.
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Regards,
Richard

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[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Richard Muller wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I invoke cscript.exe (along with an argument which is the name of a vbs
> script) from within a Ruby script (Ruby is sort of an object-orient Perl,
> plus more). I capture the return value from cscript.exe and print it.
> What I get is a two-line output:
>
> Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.6
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1996-2001. All rights reserved.
>
> Is there any way for me to return a string of my choice programmatically
> with a .vbs command? I don't see any "return" statement documented for .vbs

Hi

Try this:

Create a .vbs file with the name TestStringReturn.vbs with this content:

Wscript.Echo "This is my returning text to StdOut"

Run it with the following command in a command prompt:

CScript.exe //Nologo TestStringReturn.vbs

If you want to return a numeric errorlevel from a vbscript, you can also do that
(7 in this example):

WScript.Quit 7

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torgeir
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[Richard Muller]

Thank you VERY much for your response (with the added info about numeric
return values, too!)

FYI, here's the code I wrote in Ruby and ran under the SciTE IDE:

require "Win32API"
retval =`cscript.exe Test_StringReturnVal.vbs`
puts "Return value = " + retval

That produced the same result in SciTE's output pane that I received when I
ran the cscript command in a Command window.

Neat stuff.

Regards,
Richard

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[Richard Muller]

Woops. I just noticed that the returned string from cscript had three lines
preceding the value supplied to the WScript.Echo command. Of course, that's
no problem. I can strip them in the Ruby script, so the result is still
perfect for my purposes.

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Richard Muller wrote:

Hi

To avoid those preceding lines, you can use CScript.exe //Nologo