Meaning of "Is" & "In"

Question

What is the meaning of is and in in VBScript? Because they appear in blue when I write them in UFT.

Can I use them to check whether a value exists in matrix without looping? Because that's actually what I'm looking for. I mean something like this:

If "Ahmed" is in Matrix() Then
    msgbox "He's in"
End If

Answer 1

When in doubt, read the documentation. The Is operator is used to check if two object references (object variables) point to the same object:

Set sh1 = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set sh2 = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set sh3 = sh1
WScript.Echo "" & (sh1 Is sh2)        'Output: False
WScript.Echo "" & (sh1 Is sh3)        'Output: True

The keyword In kind of exists in VBScript, but only as part of a For Each loop:

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'"In" used in For Each loop.
For Each f In fso.GetFolder("C:\some\folder").Files
  WScript.Echo f.Name
Next

You could use a For Each loop for checking if an array (one array dimension to be precise) contains a specific value:

For Each element In arr
  If element = refElement Then
    ...
  End If
Next

I'm not aware of a way to check if a VBScript array contains a specific element without a loop, though (unless you count joining the elements to a string and then testing for an element with InStr, which doesn't work for all data types). You could do that with a Dictionary:

Set d = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
d.Add "a", True
d.Add "b", True
WScript.Echo "" & d.Exists("a")       'Output: True
WScript.Echo "" & d.Exists("c")       'Output: False

or an ArrayList:

Set al = CreateObject("System.Collections.ArrayList")
al.Add "a", True
al.Add "b", True
WScript.Echo "" & al.Contains("a")    'Output: True
WScript.Echo "" & al.Contains("c")    'Output: False

However, using different data structures would most likely require changes to the rest of your code.