This is a pretty common problem when you are first starting. The *best* way to deal with this to open up a DOS prompt and cd \path\to\script. Then, you can run the script from the command line and the window won't close.

You could use something like getch() to make the window pause before closing, but it's an ugly hack (IMHO). Working from the command line is cleaner.

Cheers,
Ovid

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