Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

On Your Own: Lab 12 Creating Files

In this lab, you will practice creating files. The result of this practice is essentially a code block that you can employ in other scripts to write information to a file instead of merely echoing it to the screen.

1. Open Notepad.exe.

2. Use Option Explicit and declare the following variables: logfile, objFSO, and objFile.

3. Create an assignment for the variable logfile that will hold the name and path of your log file. The code will look like the following:

   LogFile = "C:\FSO\fso.txt"

4. Open Windows Explorer and create a folder called FSO and a text file called Fso.txt on your C drive.

5. Create a constant called ForWriting and set it equal to 2.

6. Use CreateObject to create an instance of the FileSystemObject. Set it equal to a ...