I used it and it worked.

The only vbscripts I have are incredibly simple and I typically just use
perl instead.  Converting them from VBScript to Perl worked.  It didn't
do at all what I would have done to create the scripts natively in perl,
but they were functional.
The script read and changed Windows registry values.  I would have used
the TieRegistry modules in perl for that had to use a Shell object and
RegRead in VBScript, which the tool converted faithfully.

I have access to some more complicated vbscripts that the group
responsible for our network logon scripts wrote, but I did not have time
to analyze them.

-Jason

Jan Dubois wrote:
>  Hello everyone,
>  
>  It's been 2 weeks since we uploaded this tool, and the only feedback
>  so far has been from Jenda (and from one person letting me know that
>  he has no interest in VBScript whatsoever).
>  
>  I understand that this tool is probably of interest only to a subset
>  of PDK users, especially programmers new to Perl. Those people are
>  poorly represented in this group. I would hope that it is also useful
>  for developers needing to use OLE Automation and finding only VBScript
>  sample code for a particular object model.
>  
>  Anyways, I would still like to get a quick reply (even just to me
>  personally) of what you think of this tool at all. For example:
>  
>  * Didn't have time to look at it.
>  * Never look at VBScript, never will.  Tool is useless for me.
>  * I tried it. It works. Release it.
>  ...
>  * Could you write a tool to translate Python code to Perl instead?
>  * Other...
>  
>  Cheers,
>  -Jan
>  
>  
>  On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Jan Dubois wrote:
> > We have uploaded the next PDK Beta feature to the FTP server:
> > VBSPerl, a VBScript (and VBA) to Perl converter.
> > 
> > A Windows binary is available from this location:
> > 
> >     ftp://pdkbeta:grett0uf@ftp.activestate.com/VBSPerl-Beta1.zip
> > 
> > From our point of view, this tool is really only useful on the
> > Windows platform, so we don't intend to create binaries for Unix.
> > Please let us know if you disagree with this decision.
> > 
> > Please refer to the documentation included in the ZIP file for
> > information about installing and using the tool. If you have any
> > questions not covered by the documentation, please send them to us so
> > that we can record them in the bug database.
> > 
> > We are also interested in both interesting examples that could be
> > translated with VBSPerl, as well as in VBScript code that is not
> > being treated correctly by this tool.
> > 
> > We are planning to add a GUI interface to the converter in the
> > future. If there are specific features you would like to see, please
> > let us know about those as well.
>  
>  
>  
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