Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Own Your Own: Lab 10a Implementing Basics for the InStr Command

In this lab, you play with the InStr command to become familiar with the basic features of its implementation. Because this is a short script, you don’t need to implement a full Header information section.

Lab Instructions

1. Open Notepad.exe.

2. Create a variable called searchString and set it equal to 5. Your line will look like the following:

   searchString = "5"

3. Create another variable called textSearched and set it equal to 123456789. Your second line will look like this:

   textSearched = "123456789"

4. Create a third variable called InStrReturn and set it equal to the following InStr command: InStr (textSearched, searchString). This line will look like the following:

   InStrReturn = InStr (textSearched, ...