I want to be able to check the value of the first passed argument to a windows script. But I want to be able to do it in such a way that the script will not give a runtime error if there are no arguments passed.
This is only a matter of curiosity as I am able get my script working with two if statements, but I want to know if there's a way to do it with just one (like
monthly = false
if wscript.arguments.count > 0 then
if wscript.arguments(0) = "monthly" then
monthly = true
end if
end if
It would be neater if this could be done...
if wscript.arguments.count > 0 and wscript.arguments(0) = "Monthly" then
monthly = true
end if
But that gives a subscript out of range error because the scripting engine is trying to check the value of an array item that doesn't exist.
I know I can do this type of check in PHP (if(isset($_POST['somevariable'])) && $_POST['somevariable'] == 'somevalue')
The answer is you can't do it because VBScript has no short-circuit and operator.
Since this is out of curiousity, you can check these links :