Editing VBScript (section)

===Language features===
The VBScript language is modeled on classic Visual Basic.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/273zc69c(v=VS.85).aspx|title=VBScript Features|website=msdn.microsoft.com|date=24 October 2011 }}</ref> Notable features include:

A "procedure" is the main construct in VBScript for separating code into smaller modules. VBScript distinguishes between a function, which can return a result in an assignment statement, and a subroutine, which cannot. Parameters are positional, and can be passed by value or by reference.

Control structures include the usual iterative and conditional Do Loops, If-Then-Else statements, and Case statements, with some more complex variants, such as ElseIf and nested control structures.

As a memory aid in coding, and certainly for readability, there are a large number of constants, such as True and False for logical values, vbOKCancel and vbYesNo for MsgBox codes, vbBlack and vbYellow for color values, vbCR for the carriage return character, and many others.

Variables have "[[Variant type (COM)|Variant]]" type by default, but it is possible (and sometimes necessary) to force a particular type (integer, date, etc.) using conversion functions (CInt, CDate, etc.)

User interaction is provided through the functions <code>MsgBox</code> and  <code>InputBox</code> which provide a simple dialogue box format for messages and input. Both functions display prompting messages, with the former returning a standard response, and the latter returning one user-supplied text or numeric value. For more elaborate GUI interaction with controls, VBScript can be used in combination with HTML, for example, in an [[HTML Application]]. Event-driven forms are not supported as in Visual Basic or [[Visual Basic for Applications]].

Names are not case-sensitive. However, it is considered a best practice of VBScript style to be consistent and to capitalize judiciously.