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resources Windows Server 2012 resources Programs MSDN subscriptions Overview Benefits Administrators Students Microsoft Imagine Microsoft Student Partners ISV Startups TechRewards Events Community Magazine Forums Blogs Channel 9 Documentation APIs and reference Dev centers Samples Retired content We’re sorry. The content you requested has been removed. You’ll be auto redirected in 1 second. VBScript VBScript Language Reference Statements (VBScript) Statements (VBScript) On Error Statement On Error Statement On Error Statement Call Statement Class Statement (VBScript) Const Statement (VBScript) Dim Statement Do...Loop Statement Erase Statement Execute Statement ExecuteGlobal Statement Exit Statement For Each...Next Statement For...Next Statement Function Statement (VBScript) If...Then...Else Statement On Error Statement Option Explicit Statement Private Statement Property Get Statement Property Let Statement Property Set Statement Public Statement Randomize Statement ReDim Statement Rem Statement Select Case Statement Set Statement Stop Statement Sub Statement While...Wend Statement With Statement (VBScript) TOC Collapse the table of content Expand the table of content This documentation is archived and is not being maintained. This documentation is archived and is not being maintained. On Error Statement Enables or disables error-handling.Syntax Copy On Error Resume Next On Error GoTo 0 RemarksIf you don't use an On Error Resume Next statement anywhere in your code, any run-time error that occurs can cause an error message to be displayed and code execution stopped. However, the host running the code determines the exact behavior. The host can sometimes opt to handle such errors differently. In some cases, the script debugger may be invoked at the point of the error. In still other cases, there may be no apparent indication that any error occurred because the host does not need to notify the user. Again, this is purely a function of how the host handles any errors that occur.Within any particular procedure, an error is not necessarily fatal as long as error-handling is enabled somewhere along the call stack. If local error-handling is not enabled in a procedure and an error occurs, control is pa
error handling On Error goto 0 - Disable error handling Error properties: err.Number (default) err.Source err.Description Examples In the examples below - replace the 'code goes here' line with your VBScript commands. Example 1) Trap https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/53f3k80h(v=vs.84).aspx an error On Error Resume Next' code goes hereIf Err.Number <> 0 Then 'error handling: WScript.Echo Err.Number & " Srce: " & Err.Source & " Desc: " & Err.Description Err.ClearEnd If Example 2) Trap an error or http://ss64.com/vb/onerror.html success On Error Resume Next' code goes hereIf Err.Number = 0 Then WScript.Echo "It worked!" Else WScript.Echo "Error:" WScript.Echo Err.Number & " Srce: " & Err.Source & " Desc: " & Err.Description Err.ClearEnd If Example 3) Trap an error On Error Resume Next' code goes hereIf Err.Number <> 0 Then ShowError("It failed") Sub ShowError(strMessage) WScript.Echo strMessage WScript.Echo Err.Number & " Srce: " & Err.Source & " Desc: " & Err.Description Err.Clear End Sub “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten” ~ Jon Bon Jovi Related: Syntax - error codes InputBox - Prompt for user input Equivalent in PowerShell: ErrorAction and $errorActionPreference © Copyright SS64.com 1999-2016 Some rights reserved
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2202869/what-does-the-on-error-resume-next-statement-do with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/vbscript-in-a/1565927206/ch04s02.html Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up What does the “On Error Resume Next” statement do? up vote 41 down vote favorite 4 I came to some VBScript examples, and I saw the statement On Error Resume Next basically at the beginning of the script. What does it on error do? vbscript error-handling share|improve this question edited Feb 4 '10 at 20:42 Helen 18.3k44174 asked Feb 4 '10 at 20:18 Omar 3,364114280 4 It is a very powerful, but dangerous bit of syntax. Be very cautious using it. –Nate Feb 4 '10 at 20:22 2 It makes more sense now. After some functions that can end up in error. They have a function called checkError after them. –Omar Feb 4 '10 at 20:37 add a comment| 6 Answers 6 active oldest on error resume votes up vote 56 down vote accepted It basically tells the program when you encounter an error just continue at the next line. share|improve this answer answered Feb 4 '10 at 20:19 David 2,2601523 add a comment| up vote 24 down vote It's worth noting that even when On Error Resume Next is in effect, the Err object is still populated when an error occurs, so you can still do C-style error handling. On Error Resume Next DangerousOperationThatCouldCauseErrors If Err Then WScript.StdErr.WriteLine "error " & Err.Number WScript.Quit 1 End If On Error GoTo 0 share|improve this answer answered Feb 5 '10 at 15:49 Tmdean 6,5002645 add a comment| up vote 19 down vote When an error occurs, the execution will continue on the next line without interrupting the script. share|improve this answer answered Feb 4 '10 at 20:19 Pierre-Alain Vigeant 13.7k44388 add a comment| up vote 8 down vote It means, when an error happens on the line, it is telling vbscript to continue execution without aborting the script. Sometimes, the On Error follows the Goto label to alter the flow of execution, something like this in a Sub code block, now you know why and how the usage of GOTO can result in spaghetti code: Sub MySubRoutine() On Error Goto ErrorHandler REM VB code... REM More VB Code... Exit_MySubRoutine: REM Disable the Error Handler! On Error Goto 0 REM Leave.... Exit Sub ErrorHandler: REM Do something about the Error Goto Exit_MySubRoutine End Sub Hope this helps, Best reg
VBScript in a Nutshell by Matt Childs... Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc. VBScript in a Nutshell Preface Why This Book? Who Should Read This Book? How This Book Should Be Used How This Book Is Structured Conventions in This Book How To Contact Us I. The Basics 1. Introduction 2. Program Structure 3. Data Types and Variables 4. Error Handling and Debugging 5. VBScript with Active Server Pages 6. Programming Outlook Forms 7. Windows Script Host 8. VBScript with Internet Explorer II. Reference 9. The Language Reference III. Appendixes A. Language Elements by Category B. VBScript Constants C. Operators Index Colophon Error Handling Error handling does not involve finding errors in your scripts. Instead, use error handling techniques to allow your program to continue executing even though a potentially fatal error has occurred. Ordinarily, all runtime errors that are generated by the VBScript engine are fatal, since execution of the current script is halted when the error occurs. Error handling allows you to inform the user of the problem and either halt execution of the program or, if it is prudent, continue executing the program.The On Error Resume Next StatementThere are two main elements to error handling in VBScript. The first is the On Error statement, which informs the VBScript engine of your intention to handle errors yourself, rather than to allow the VBScript engine to display a typically uninformative error message and halt the program. This is done by inserting a statement like the following at the start of a procedure:On Error Resume NextThis tells the VBScript engine that, should an error occur, you want it to continue executing the program starting with the line of code which directly follows the line in which the error occurred. For example, in the simple WSH script:On Error Resume Next x = 10 y = 0 z = x / y Alert za “Cannot divide by Zero” error is generated on the fou