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Microsoft® VBScript Step by Step
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Microsoft® VBScript Step by Step

by Ed Wilson
November 2006
Beginner to intermediate
512 pages
12h 42m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 5. More Arrays

Before You Begin

To work through the material presented in this chapter, you need to be familiar with the following concepts from earlier chapters:

  • Creating single dimension arrays

  • Creating two-dimensional arrays

  • Implementing the For Next construction

  • Implementing the Select Case construction

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Convert text files into arrays to add power to analysis

  • Convert delimited strings into arrays to enable analysis of log files

  • Work with dictionaries to create on-the-fly storage

Strings and Arrays

In this section, you’ll use text files as an input into your script to dynamically create an array that you’ll use to do real work. Why is this topic important? Even though we all know about the event ...

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