Creating and writing lines to a file

Question

Is it possible to create a file and write lines to it in vbscript   Something similar to echo in bat file  echo something something  gt  gt sometextfile txt    On execution of the vbscript depending on the path of the script would create an autorun inf file to execute a particular program   smartdriverbackup sdb exe    Also how can I strip remove the drive letter from the complete file path

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You ll need to deal with File System Object  See this OpenTextFile method sample

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Create The Object Set FSO   CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject      How To Write To A File Set File   FSO CreateTextFile  C  foo bar txt  True  File Write  Example String  File Close    How To Read From A File Set File   FSO OpenTextFile  C  foo bar txt   Do Until File AtEndOfStream     Line   File ReadLine     WScript Echo Line  Loop File Close    Another Method For Reading From A File Set File   FSO OpenTextFile  C  foo bar txt   Set Text   File ReadAll WScript Echo Text  File Close

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Set objFSO CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject      How to write file outFile  c  test autorun inf  Set objFile   objFSO CreateTextFile outFile True  objFile Write  test string   amp  vbCrLf objFile Close   How to read a file strFile    c  test file  Set objFile   objFS OpenTextFile strFile  Do Until objFile AtEndOfStream     strLine  objFile ReadLine     Wscript Echo strLine Loop objFile Close   to get file path without drive letter  assuming drive letters are c   d   etc strFile  c  test file  s   Split strFile      WScript Echo s 1

[vbscript] Creating and writing lines to a file

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