%Library.File

Read only property that returns the canonical filename if the file is open and "" if the file is not open.

The creation date for this file (rounded to the millisecond). Only Windows maintains the created date; other operating systems return the date of the last file "status" change.

The last modified date for this file (rounded to the millisecond).

True (1) if this file is currently open, false (0) otherwise.

The name of this file.

Return the attributes of the file. The format of the returned value depends on the underlying operating system.

Microsoft Windows® returns a value as a combination of bits whose meaning is:

• 1: 0x00001 - Read-only
• 2: 0x00002 - Hidden
• 4: 0x00004 - System
• 8: 0x00008 - Unused
• 16: 0x00010 - Directory
• 32: 0x00020 - Archive
• 64: 0x00040 - Device
• 128: 0x00080 - Normal
• 256: 0x00100 - Temporary
• 512: 0x00200- Sparse File
• 1024: 0x00400 - Reparse Point
• 2048: 0x00800 - Compressed
• 4096: 0x01000 - Offline
• 8192: 0x02000 - Content Not Indexed
• 16384: 0x04000 - Encrypted
• 32768: 0x08000 - Unused
• 65536: 0x10000 - Virtual

In UNIX®, the returned value represents the mode map:

• 1: 0x0001 - execute permission for others
• 2: 0x0002 - write permission for others
• 4: 0x0004 - read permission for others
• 7: 0x0007 - mask for others permissions
• 8: 0x0008 - execute permission for group
• 16: 0x0010 - write permission for group
• 32: 0x0020 - read permission for group
• 56: 0x0038 - mask for group permissions
• 64: 0x0040 - execute permission for owner
• 128: 0x0080 - write permission for owner
• 256: 0x0100 - read permission for owner
• 448: 0x01C0 - mask for file owner permissions
• 512: 0x0200 - sticky bit
• 1024: 0x0400 - set groupid
• 2048: 0x0800 - set userid
• 4096: 0x1000 - fifo
• 8192: 0x2000 - character device
• 16384: 0x4000 - directory
• 24576: 0x6000 - block device
• 32768: 0x8000 - regular file
• 40960: 0xA000 - symbolic link
• 49152: 0xC000 - socket
• 61440: 0xF000 - mask for file type

Note: Individual Operating System vendor differences may exist. The relevant man/help pages or other associated documentation should be consulted for a definitive description of the file attributes on a given system.

Returns the canonical form of the filename. If the file can not be opened then it will return ""

Inherited description: Clear the contents of this Stream from permanent storage. This will remove the permanent stream storage and any temporary stream and initialise the stream to its initial state that it starts in, including removing all the stream attributes.

Returns a %Status value indicating success or failure.

Close the current file.

Compare two files and return 1 if they are identical and 0 otherwise

Handle delete of cases where filename contains a wildcard. Note: this does not delete subdirectories in the given directory; only files are removed. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Return the canonical form of the directory name filename. When filename is a non-full path directory, it will prefix the filename with Manager Path instead of current directory.

Pass in an array of paths you want to turn into a filename for the server platform, for example: If you want the name returned to be a directory terminated with a '/' or '\' then pass in a null dirs entry as the last piece. You can also call Deconstruct() with the returned filename to turn this back into an array like dirs. If you pass in a blank array it will return the default directory.

Copy a host directory from pSource to pTarget.
Parameter pOverlay Parameter pDeleteBeforeCopy may be used to specify that any file that already exists in the target directory should be deleted before being overwritten with the source file. The default is 0 or false.
This method returns true if it succeeds and false otherwise.
Note: (1) If the target directory exists and pOverlay is false (default), then the operation fails. Also, if any of the target files exist and pDeleteBeforeCopy is false (default), then the operation may fail usually due to operating system characteristics. (2) The total number of files or directories created/copied during the operation can be gotten by passing a byref value in pCreated.

Copy a host file from to host file to.
Parameter pDeleteBeforeCopy may be used to specify that if the target file already exists then it should be deleted before being overwritten with the source file. The default is 0 or false.
This method returns true if it succeeds and false otherwise. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code or of an IRIS simulated operating system return code.
Also see $SYSTEM.Process.OSError().

Method not implemented as it does not make sense in context of %File interface

Creates a directory with name name. Returns true if it succeeds and false otherwise. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Create this directory and all the parent directories if they do not exist. This differs from CreateDirectory() as that method only creates one new directory where as this will create the entire chain of directories. Returns true if it succeeds and false otherwise. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Given a directory name and the name of a new directory create this directory inside the given directory. Return true if it succeeds and false otherwise. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Pass in a full valid filename for the server platform and it will decompose it into the dirs array with each integer subscript being a part of the path, this array can then be passed into Construct() to reconstruct the filename again. So on a Unix server you need to pass this a valid Unix filename and on a Windows server this should be passed a Windows filename.

Deletes the file filename. Returns true if it succeeds and false otherwise. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Tests if filename is a directory. returns 1 if it is a directory, otherwise, returns 0.

Returns true (1) if filename exists. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Given a full directory and filename this will return just the directory portion of this name. This is useful as the parsing of filenames on Unix/Windows is different.

Return the number of pieces in this directory name

Return the piece of a directory name

Return the amount of total space and free space in either Bytes,MB,GB on a drive or directory
Name = Valid Drive or directory specification
Flag = 0 - Return bytes
Flag = 1 - Return MB (Default)
Flag = 2 - Return GB

MB and GB returned are rounded to 2 decimal places.
Any error status returned is O/S level error. Note that on Windows only drives have a measurement for free space and directories can not so the FreeSpace is only returned for drives.

Return the date created of file filename in $H format, if the operating system supports it. Windows is the only current platform that tracks the created date. Other systems return the date of the last file "status" change. By default this is local time. If you pass utc as true it returns it in UTC time. The value is rounded to millisecond precision.

Return the date last modified of file filename in $H format. By default this is local time. If you pass utc as true it returns it in UTC time. The value is rounded to millisecond precision.

Return the SHA 256 hash of file filename.

Return the size of file filename in bytes.

Given a full directory and filename this will return just the filename portion of this name. This is useful as the parsing of filenames on Unix/Windows is different.

Return the Owner and Group of a file or directory in the format Owner:Group.

Returns the path of the manager directory.

Returns a normalized absolute directory from the directory that is passed in including any trailing directory delimiter.

If the directory is a relative path (rather than an absolute path) then the absolutedirectory parameter determines what we normalize the directory compoent relative to. If absolutedirectory is "" or not passed in then we normalize relative to the current default directory otherwise we will normalize relative to the passed in absolutedirectory.

addnull use is deprecated

Returns the normalized form of the filename. If you pass directory then it will normalize this filename relative to the provided directory, if no directory is supplied then it is relative to the current default directory. If the directory does not exist then this method will return the empty string. Otherwise, this method returns the normalized full path name of the specified file.

Normalize filenames containing spaces for the host platform.

Parameter
pathname : A filename or pathname.

Description
The NormalizeFilenameWithSpaces class method handles spaces in pathnames as appropriate to the host platform.

If a pathname contains spaces NormalizeFilenameWithSpaces returns the pathname enclosed in double quotes ("path name"). If a pathname does not contain spaces, the method returns it unchanged. NormalizeFilenameWithSpaces performs no other pathname validation.

NormalizefilenameWithSpaces is commonly used with the $ZF() functions.

Note that this method does not perform the normalization actions of NormalizeFilename().

Open the current file with mode mode.

mode is a string containing one or more file modes including:

R	Read
W	Write
S	Stream mode
N	Create a new file (overwrite existing file)

Note that if the mode contains ':' characters this is a delimiter. For example if the mode="RN:/SHARED" then it will open the file with the equivalent of the COS command 'Open name:("RN":/SHARED):0'. The first piece before the ':' is quoted and the subsequent pieces are not.

A complete discussion of the available options for mode can be found in the online documentation in the book, I/O Devices Guide, specifically the chapter on Sequential File I/O.

Given a directory name, return the name of its parent directory.
If the directory is already the root (e.g., "/" on Unix, "c:\" on Windows), return the root.

Read up to len characters from this File.

Return true if the file is read only and false if it is writable

Removes directory name. Returns true if it succeeds and false otherwise. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Recursively remove directory pTarget. Returns true if it succeeds and false otherwise.

Rename file or directory oldname to newname. Returns true if it succeeds and false otherwise. If you rename a file to a different filesystem, the result is to copy the file to a new name and delete the original file. You can use this method to rename a directory within the same filesystem; the method does not work if the new name is on a different file system.
Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Moves the current location to the beginning of the stream.

Return binary form of SHA1 hash on the file if type is 0 (the default). If you want the string version then pass in type as 1. Note that if you already have the file open in this process calling this function will close this file.

Set the OS specific attributes of the file. See the Attribute method in this class for file attribute values. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Set the date last modified of file filename to be ntime in $H format. By default ntime is local time. If you pass utc as true, ntime will be treated as UTC time. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Set the Owner and Group of a file or directory.
This uses the unix "chown" command to perform the operation, and is valid only on Unix platforms.

Make this file/directory read only (if we can). If leaveexisting is true then it will add read permissions to the file/directory without changing the existing permissions, by default it will remove all other permissions other than read only flags. The leaveexisting has no effect on Windows so you do not need to pass this argument on this platform. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Set umask to the given value and return the previous umask value. Does not affect directories, which are always created with permission 775 (UMask 002) by default.

Make this file/directory writable (if we can). The writeonly defaults to true in which case this makes the file write only, if you just want to add writable to the existing permissions without modifying the other permissions pass writeonly=0. The writeonly has no effect on Windows so you do not need to pass this argument on this platform. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Given a directory name and the name of a sub directory create the name for the subdirectory inside the given directory. Return the new directory name. This is useful as the parsing of filenames on Unix/Windows is different.

Create an empty temporary file in the OS provided temp directory, or the directory specified by dir, and return the filename.
If you specify ext the filename will have this extension.
You should delete the file after using it.
Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of an error. It will be the negative value of the operating system return code, or 0 if there is no error.
In case of an error, the method returns an empty string.

Truncate an existing file or create a new empty file. Pass return by reference to obtain the low level return value in case of errors which is the negative value of the operating system return code.

Write data to this %File object.

Write data with a carriage return to this %File object.

Return true if the file/directory is writable and false if it is not