VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - Version 5.20, by Dr. Herong Yang

Statement Syntax and Statement Types

This chapter provides tutorial examples and notes about statements in VBScript. Topics include what is a statement, how to write a statement, commonly used statement types and examples.

What Is a Statement?

Commonly Used Types of Statements

Conclusions:

  • A Statement is a basic execution unit of VBScript source code.
  • Each statement has a keyword to identify its statement type.
  • Statement keywords are not case sensitive.
  • Multiple statements in a single line is not allowed.
  • One statement can be written in multiple lines with (_) as the continuation character.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of VBScript - Visual Basic Scripting Edition

 Variant Data Type, Subtypes, and Literals

 Arithmetic Operations

 Numeric Comparison Operations and Logical Operations

 String Operations - Concatenation and Comparison

 Variable Declaration and Assignment Statement

 Expression and Order of Operation Precedence

Statement Syntax and Statement Types

 Array Data Type and Related Statements

 Array References and Array Assignment Statements

 Conditional Statements - "If ... Then" and "Select Case"

 Loop Statements - "For", "While", and "Do"

 "Function" and "Sub" Procedures

 Built-in Functions

 Inspecting Variables Received in Procedures

 Error Handling Flag and the "Err" Object

 Regular Expression Pattern Match and Replacement

 scrrun.dll - Scripting Runtime DLL Library

 Creating Your Own Classes

 IE Web Browser Supporting VBScript

 IIS ASP Server Supporting VBScript

 WSH (Windows Script Host)

 References

 Printable Copy - PDF Version

Statement Syntax and Statement Types - Updated in 2015, by Dr. Herong Yang