Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

Writing to a Text File

Creating text files using VBScript is cool but rather useless unless you can also add information to them. Writing information to a text file gives you a way to save information. In addition, it’s a good way to create a log file to track the progress of various automated administrative tasks. You use the WriteLine method to write to a text file.

Just the Steps

To write to a text file

1. Create an instance of FileSystemObject.

2. Use the appropriate parameter to indicate that you are going to either overwrite the file (2) or append data to the file (8).

3. Use either the Write, WriteLine, or WriteBlankLines method to write to the file. ...