A variable is convenient placeholder which refers to a computer memory location where you can store program information which may change when your script is running. For instance, you might develop a variable called Click Count to store the number of times a user clicks an object on a specific Web page. Where the variable is stored in computer memory is unimportant. What is significant is that you only ought to refer to a variable by name to see its value or to alter its value. In VBScript, variables are always of one fundamental data type, Variant.