Question

I need to create a simple utility to make my life a little easier. It creates a folder that gets name generated from the next Monday date with DateJS library. I am obviously to use this utility locally in Windows. What are the ways to include this DateJS library to my utility JS file?

Answer 1

I assume you’re using WSH – in other words, putting some script in a .js file and running it. Your options:

• Simply copy the DateJS code from date.js and paste it to the bottom of your script. Easy, but messy and not maintainable.
• Use the hacky method outlined in the “Importing External Script Code” section of this article. Basically, you read the external code in to a variable and eval() it. I would not recommend this method.
• Save your script in the wsf format, a simple XML format which allows you to reference external scripts. This is probably your best route.

myscript.wsf:

<job id="myscript">
   <script language="JScript" src="date.js"/>
   <script language="JScript">
      // ...
   </script>
</job>