lenilsondc / vbspretty

VBScript parser and beautifier as a node module

vbspretty

A sophisticated VBScript parser and beautifier powered by nodejs.

Usage

npm i vbspretty

As command-line (See command line options at CLI)

npx vbspretty ./MyApp.vbs

Nodejs usage

const fs = require('fs');
const vbspretty = require('vbspretty');

const source = fs.readFileSync('./MyApp.vbs').toString();

var sourcePretty = vbspretty({
  level: 0,
  indentChar: '\t',
  breakLineChar: '\r\n',
  breakOnSeperator: false,
  removeComments: false,
  source: source,
});

fs.writeFileSync('./MyAppPretty.vbs', sourcePretty);

CLI usage

Cli accepts all options from the api plus an --output option to provide a different file to output formatted version, if --output is omitted, the input file will be overwritten.

First param should always be the input file and it's mandatory, other params are optionals to configure vbspretty options. See full example bellow.

vbspretty MyApp.vbs --level 0 --indentChar "\t" --breakLineChar "\r\n" --breakOnSeperator --removeComments --output ./MyAppPretty.vbs

API

Options	Type	Default	Description
level	number	0	Indent level to start off
indentChar	String	"spacespace"	Indent character (e.g., \t, spacespace)
breakLineChar	String	"\n"	Break line character (e.g., \n, \r\n)
breakOnSeperator	boolean	false	Whether it breaks the line on occurrences of the ":" statement separator.
removeComments	boolean	false	Whether it removes comments from the input.