Many scripts in the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) user community focus on managing user accounts and resources. However, WSH scripts aren't limited to these functions. WSH is a powerful tool that lets you access scripting components across the entire range of Windows applications, including Internet Explorer (IE).
With WSH's support for Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM), you can also access ActiveX components. The Internet offers a wide array of ActiveX components, so you'll likely find an ActiveX object that performs the task you need to accomplish.
In this article, I'll show you how to use an ActiveX object to create a script that controls Internet Explorer (IE) and accesses content from Web pages. (If you're unfamiliar with how to use ActiveX components, see "Using ActiveX Objects to Extend WSH's Functionality," January 1999.) Along the way, I'll discuss two workhorse Visual Basic Script (VBScript) functions—InStr and Mid—that you can use to manipulate string variables. . . .
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