ReadLine Method (Windows Script Host)


object.ReadLine

object: StdIn text stream object.

The ReadLine method returns a string. The StdIn, StdOut, and StdErr properties and methods work when running the script with the CScript.exe host executable file only. An error is returned when run with WScript.exe. A line is a sequence of characters that ends with a newline character.

Note
Although this method extracts the newline character, it does not add it to the string.

The following code demonstrates the use of the ReadLine method.

Visual Basic Script	Copy Code
Dim StdIn, StdOut Set StdIn = WScript.StdIn Set StdOut = WScript.StdOut Do While Not StdIn.AtEndOfStream str = StdIn.ReadLine StdOut.WriteLine "Line " & (StdIn.Line - 1) & ": " & str Loop

JScript	Copy Code
var stdin = WScript.StdIn; var stdout = WScript.StdOut; while (!stdin.AtEndOfStream) { var str = stdin.ReadLine(); stdout.WriteLine("Line " + (stdin.Line - 1) + ": " + str); }

Applies To:

StdIn Property (WScript)

Reference

FileSystemObject Object
TextStream Object

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