Last week I wrote a function which takes a file path and returns the base64 PNG code for that image. Since it isn’t straight-forward for everyone as to how to convert that JScript code to VBScript I decided to do just that: Feel free to use this code in your Read more…
Have you ever had a column text for which you wish you could easily create links? For example, let’s say that you have a column of search words (or phrases) that should link to the Google page for each search. How would you do it? First of all, you would Read more…
One of the things that I love about string manipulation is the existence of regular expressions. For this reason, I have decided to share a few examples that may help those who are learning about regular expressions so that can understand them a bit better. JavaScript – General Variable Name Read more…
Over the years, I have seen many different techniques for emulating the InputBox and MsgBox functions in JScript, but none of them were quite as elegant as the one I saw here. Once I dug into the code and realized that ScriptControl was making it so that JScript could run Read more…
I was writing two HTAs (HTML Applications) today and for the first one, I needed to create a VBArray with the number five in it. Fortunately, I remembered that I wrote a page about this prior to my blog. Therefore, here is the snippet which I plan on including in Read more…
One of the nice things about JavaScript is its functional nature. This is especially nice when it comes to dealing with strings and regular expressions. For instance, in JavaScript, you can use the following code to capitalize every other letter in a string: Cool stuff, right? Wouldn’t it be nice Read more…
One of the things that is often used in the JavaScript Prototype library is the camelize function which camel-cases the specified string. Unfortunately, just as this function doesn’t exist natively in JavaScript, it also doesn’t in VBScript. If you do need an equivalent function to that which is available in Read more…
In VBScript, there is a space function which takes an integer and returns a string with the specified number of spaces. At times, you may need such a function to make you text look neat while working with a monospace font. Here is the code that you could use to Read more…