ObjectType:filepath

Description

**Object Type Vitals**
filepath
Defined By	LavishScript
Inherits	unistring
Reduces To	Same as Path
Variable Object Type	mutablefilepath
Uses Sub-Types	no
C/C++ Type	const wchar_t *

Members

bool PathExists: TRUE if the given path exists
bool FileExists[additional path]: TRUE if the given additional path exists. This can be a directory OR file, and can be an absolute path or a path relative to this filepath
string Path: The string representation of this path
string AbsolutePath: The string representation of this path converted to an absolute path

Methods

MakeSubdirectory[subdir]: Creates a directory with name <subdir> off of this path.

Examples

Example code

function main() 
{ 
   declare FP filepath "c:/program files/innerspace/scripts"
   echo FileExists[test.iss] = ${FP.FileExists[test.iss]}
   echo Path = ${FP.Path}
   echo PathExists = ${FP.PathExists}
   echo AbsolutePath = ${FP.AbsolutePath}
}

Output

FileExists[test.iss] = TRUE
Path = c:/program files/innerspace/scripts
PathExists = TRUE
AbsolutePath = c:/program files/innerspace/scripts

Creating directories

declare FP filepath "${Script.CurrentDirectory}"
if !${FP.FileExists["Config"]}
{
    FP:MakeSubdirectory["Config"]
}
FP:Set["${Script.CurrentDirectory}/Config"]
if !${FP.FileExists["Logs"]}
{
    FP:MakeSubdirectory["Logs"]
}