How do I create a String object in scripting?

Errors are:

1. "String" don't exist as an object (actually the word is a function), are a data type. So you can assign with Set or New. The error "expected end of statement" is because can't use Dim with assignation in vbscript.

2 & 3. "foo" isn't an object nor str.

I think that what you want is the funciton Len(str) which return the string length.

VBScript is a very small subset of the basic language. You can try to find in your computer the file "script56.chm" or try in microsoft web to download it.

Regards. Alvaro.

VBScript or JScript? You can write a scripted component in either, bt not a mixture of the two.

The code you have in 2 and 3 is JScript. In VB a string is a variable subtype, not an object.

I have many examples of how to do this kind of stuff. What exactly are you trying to do?

OK, I eventually found what I was looking for thanks to the link to the script56.chm.

As pointed out, VBScript doesn't handle strings as proper String objects. (Obviously, VBScript was written a long time ago!)

So, to manipulate the file name (obtained from a proper File object), I must do this:

Dim myString

myString = myFileObject.Name

Then I can use various string functions that exist separately, such as

myIndex = InStr(myString, "*.txt")

to get the index of the *.txt suffix.