Can't get to first base with 'do as VBScript'

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Tue Aug 17 18:01:10 EDT 2010


If I were to evaluate (quote & " & vbCrLf & " & quote) I would get:

" &vbCrLf & "

I don't think that is what you are looking for. I think you must mean:
replace CR with vbCrLf in it

Bob


On Aug 17, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Mark E. Powell wrote:

> I am on Windows, Rev 2.9, and trying to use VBScript to do some Outlook stuff.  I know almost no Visual Basic and have never invoked VBScript from Rev, so please consider me a simpleton.  
> 
> I've put sample code into a field and used the basic call
> 
>  get fld "Statements"
>  replace CR with (quote & " & vbCrLf & " & quote) in it
>  do it as VBScript
> 
> In all the samples I have tried I get the result "execution error".
> 
> Question 1:  can anyone tell what I might be doing wrong, based on what I have described?
> 
> Question 2:  Is there is an extremely elementary "Hello World" type validation code snippet that I could use to test basic execution?
> 
> By the way, the alternateLanguages returns this:
> XML
> VBScript
> VBScript.Encode
> JScript
> JScript.Encode
> "SignedJavaScript"
> "SignedVBScript"
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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