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Need VB Script to look for a file and act on if it exists

Asked by jsvb1977 in VB Script, Visual Basic Programming

Tags: vb script, visual basic

I have a tiny script that looks in a directory for a file. I need to modify the script so that it does the following:

1. If the file exists, END
2. If the file does not exist, wait 5 seconds and look again.

I think it would be bad to loop the script for ever so I would also like to limit the number of loops so that if the file never exists, the script will END [or even better, throw an error or write to the event logs or something like that].

I have tried a couple of things without success. This is different than .Net, I think, so I'm not sure if I can use Sub to loop through.

FYI - this script will be used in an application that allows the use of vb script so it will not be a stand alone application or anything like that [if it matters].

Thank you,
Jason

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             strFile= "C:\Scripts\JRSTEST.txt"
set objFSO = createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 
if objFSO.FileExists(strFile) then
	'Do Nothing
else
    wscript.echo "Sorry, the file does not exist"
end if

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Need VB Script to look for a file and act on if it exists

Asked by jsvb1977 in VB Script, Visual Basic Programming

Tags: vb script, visual basic

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