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Hello world in VBS

I have start playing with VBScript a couple of days ago and there is a problem that is irritating me. I have tried to test simple hello world program:

Module Hello
  Sub Main()
      MsgBox("Hello, World!") ' Display message on computer screen.
  End Sub 
End Module

When I run it with cscript "hello world.vbs", from cmd. I'm getting an error: M:\hello world.vbs(6, 1) Microsoft VBScript compilation error: Expected statement

When I change code to only: MsgBox("Hello, World!") ' Display message on computer screen. Code is running normally. There is a popup message and there are no errors. I'm using Win 7 SP1, Sublime text 3 and I have installed .Net 4.5; 4.6.

I'm a bit noob to .VBS so please don't be harsh. Thank you xD.

Solution

  • The entry point for VBScript is the global area at the top of the script file.

    You do not need to declare a containing structure like a Module and a Main function as an entry point.

    Since it looks like you tried to adopt from Visual Basic (for Applications) I recommend Visual Basic for Applications Features Not In VBScript as a reference.