May 1995
Beginner
508 pages
16h 14m
English
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Name
ScriptEngineMajorVersion Function
Syntax
ScriptEngineMajorVersion( )
Return Value
A Variant of subtype Long.
Description
Indicates the major version (1, 2, etc.) of the scripting language currently in use.
Rules at a Glance
The following table lists the versions of VBScript through 5.0, as well as the year in which they were released and the products with which they were initially released:
|
Version |
Year |
Product |
|---|---|---|
|
1.0 |
1996 |
MSIE 3.0 |
|
2.0 |
1997 |
IIS 2.0 |
|
3.0 |
1998 |
MSIE 4.0, IIS 4.0, WSH 1.0, Outlook 98 |
|
4.0 |
1998 |
Visual Studio 6.0 |
|
5.0 |
1999 |
MSIE 5.0 |
Programming Tips & Gotchas
The function is also implemented in the JScript scripting engine.
If your script requires some functionality available in a baseline version, ordinarily you want to make sure that the script is running on that version or a later version. For instance, if your script requires regular expression support, which became available only in VBScript Version 5, you would test for the version with a code fragment like:
If ScriptingEngineMajorVersion >= 5 Then
You do not want to test for equality, as in:
If ScriptingEngineMajorVersion = 5 Then
since that may leave your script unable to run on versions of VBScript later than version 5.
VBA/VBScript Differences
This function is not supported in VBA.
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