October 20, 2000 - File Operations and Properties

October 20, 2000
File Operations and Properties

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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You create an ActiveX File object by calling ActiveXObject() with a single argument, Scripting.FileSystemObject:

myActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

You create a File object by using the ActiveX's GetFile() method:

myFile = myActiveXObject.GetFile("c:\\Autoexec.bat");

Here are the File object's properties:

Property	Description
`Attributes`	Refers to the file attributes
`DateCreated`	Returns the file's creation date
`DateLastAccessed`	Returns the file's last-accessed date
`DateLastModified`	Returns the file's last-modified date
`Drive`	Returns the file's letter drive
`Name`	Returns the file name
`ParentFolder`	Returns the file's parent folder name
`Path`	Returns the file's long path
`ShortName`	Returns the file's short name
`ShortPath`	Returns the file's short path
`Size`	Returns the file size
`Type`	Returns the file type

Here are the File object's methods:

Method	Description
`Copy()`	Copies the file from one folder to another
`Delete()`	Removes the file
`Move()`	Moves the file from one folder to another
`OpenAsTextStream()`	Opens the file as a text stream