VBScript in a Nutshell

Name

Rem Statement

Syntax

Rem comment
' comment

comment

Use: Optional

A textual comment to place within the code.

Description

Use the Rem statement or an apostrophe (') to place remarks within the code.

Rules at a Glance

Apostrophes held within quotation marks aren’t treated as comment markers, as this code snippet shows:

myVar = "'Something'"

Programming Tips & Gotchas

You can also use the line continuation character ( _ ) with comments, as this snippet shows:

'this is _
a comment _
on more than one line

VBA/VBScript Differences

• In VBA, if you use the Rem statement (but not the apostrophe) on the same line as program code, a colon is required after the program code and before the Rem statement. For example:

  Set objDoc = Server.CreateObject("MyApp.MyObj") : Rem Define the object
                                                    Rem reference

  VBScript, on the other hand, successfully recognizes the Rem statement even without the colon.

• In VBA using the VBA editor, if you “comment out” a line, that line and all of its line continuations are affected. In VBScript, the comment keyword or symbol must be added to each line to be “commented out.”