Question

I have a VB script that reads the 11th line from a text file. However from that line I need to extract characters 48 through 53 and save it as a variable. After this is accomplished I would like to use that variable and use it in a web url. Example below:

Contents of the szCPUSer.dat file look like this:

The script I have reads the 10th line

Const ForReading = 1

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("szCPUSer.dat", ForReading)

For i = 1 to 10
    objTextFile.ReadLine
Next

strLine = objTextFile.ReadLine
Wscript.Echo strLine

objTextFile.Close

I need the script to extract 03187 from the 11th line than store it as a variable SerNum. after this I would like to use that number extracted in a url for example:

http://seriallookup.com/serial=SerNum

Answer 1

The following works!

Const ForReading = 1
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("szCPUSer.dat", ForReading)
For i = 1 to 10
    objTextFile.ReadLine
Next
strLine = objTextFile.ReadLine
Wscript.Echo strLine
objTextFile.Close

'Gets 6 chars starting from Right side
SerNum = Right(strLine, 6)
'Gets 6 chars starting from Left side
SerNum = Left(SerNum, 5)
'Wscript.Echo SerNum
url = "http://seriallookup.com/serial=" & SerNum
Wscript.Echo url