VB Scripting error.. Object Required

Question

This is my first day with VB scripting. I found following code to search and replace text in a text file but when I run that using the following command

cscript replace.vbs "test.txt" "Jim" "James"

I get an error saying

replace.vbs(6, 1) Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Object required: 'Scripting'

Here is the code

Const ForReading = 1    
Const ForWriting = 2
strFileName = Wscript.Arguments(0)
strOldText = Wscript.Arguments(1)
strNewText = Wscript.Arguments(2)
Set objFSO = CreateObject(Scripting.FileSystemObject)
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFileName, ForReading)
strText = objFile.ReadAll
objFile.Close
strNewText = Replace(strText, strOldText, strNewText)
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFileName, ForWriting)
objFile.Write strNewText  'WriteLine adds extra CRLF
objFile.Close

Ekkehard.Horner · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-24 17:12:46Z

2

Use

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

(mark the quotes, CreateObject() needs a string)

answered Sep 24, 2014 at 17:12

Ekkehard.Horner

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