4.1.1- Creating a Variable

Creating a Variable

In the above code example, two things are happening. Firstly, three variables are created and secondly they are given values to store. We'll discuss more about the latter a bit further on in this chapter, but for now, let's concentrate on the first three lines of this example:

Dim CapitalCityOfUK

Dim NumberOfStates

Dim IndependenceDay

We are instructing VBScript to create three empty variables called CapitalCityOfUK, NumberOfStates and IndependenceDay. You can create any variable in a similar manner, using the Dim keyword followed by the name of the variable. There is, however, a quicker way to declare many variables at once, for example:

Dim CapitalCityUK, NumberOfStates, IndependenceDay

This does exactly the same thing as the three lines above – it creates three separate variables as before, which are empty and ready to accept data.

We'll discuss creating (or declaring) variables again later .