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' FileSystemObject Sample Code
' Copyright 1998 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
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Option Explicit
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' Regarding code quality:
' 1) The following code does a lot of string manipulation by
' concatenating short strings together with the "&" operator.
' Since string concatenation is expensive, this is a very
' inefficient way to write code. However, it is a very
' maintainable way to write code, and is used here because this
' program performs extensive disk operations, and because the
' disk is much slower than the memory operations required to
' concatenate the strings. Keep in mind that this is demonstration
' code, not production code.
'
' 2) "Option Explicit" is used, because declared variable access is
' slightly faster than undeclared variable access. It also prevents
' bugs from creeping into your code, such as when you misspell
' DriveTypeCDROM as DriveTypeCDORM.
'
' 3) Error handling is absent from this code, to make the code more
' readable. Although precautions have been taken to ensure that the
' code will not error in common cases, file systems can be
' unpredictable. In production code, use On Error Resume Next and
' the Err object to trap possible errors.
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' Some handy global variables
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Dim TabStop
Dim NewLine
Const TestDrive = "C"
Const TestFilePath = "C:\Test"
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' Constants returned by Drive.DriveType
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Const DriveTypeRemovable = 1
Const DriveTypeFixed = 2
Const DriveTypeNetwork = 3
Const DriveTypeCDROM = 4
Const DriveTypeRAMDisk = 5
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' Constants returned by File.Attributes
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Const FileAttrNormal = 0
Const FileAttrReadOnly = 1
Const FileAttrHidden = 2
Const FileAttrSystem = 4
Const FileAttrVolume = 8
Const FileAttrDirectory = 16
Const FileAttrArchive = 32
Const FileAttrAlias = 1024
Const FileAttrCompressed = 2048
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' Constants for opening files
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Const OpenFileForReading = 1
Const OpenFileForWriting = 2
Const OpenFileForAppending = 8
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' ShowDriveType
' Purpose:
' Generates a string describing the drive type of a given Drive object.
' Demonstrates the following
' - Drive.DriveType
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Function ShowDriveType(Drive)
Dim S
Select Case Drive.DriveType
Case DriveTypeRemovable
S = "Removable"
Case DriveTypeFixed
S = "Fixed"
Case DriveTypeNetwork
S = "Network"
Case DriveTypeCDROM
S = "CD-ROM"
Case DriveTypeRAMDisk
S = "RAM Disk"
Case Else
S = "Unknown"
End Select
ShowDriveType = S
End Function
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' ShowFileAttr
' Purpose:
' Generates a string describing the attributes of a file or folder.
' Demonstrates the following
' - File.Attributes
' - Folder.Attributes
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Function ShowFileAttr(File) ' File can be a file or folder
Dim S
Dim Attr
Attr = File.Attributes
If Attr = 0 Then
ShowFileAttr = "Normal"
Exit Function
End If
If Attr And FileAttrDirectory Then S = S & "Directory "
If Attr And FileAttrReadOnly Then S = S & "Read-Only "
If Attr And FileAttrHidden Then S = S & "Hidden "
If Attr And FileAttrSystem Then S = S & "System "
If Attr And FileAttrVolume Then S = S & "Volume "
If Attr And FileAttrArchive Then S = S & "Archive "
If Attr And FileAttrAlias Then S = S & "Alias "
If Attr And FileAttrCompressed Then S = S & "Compressed "
ShowFileAttr = S
End Function
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' GenerateDriveInformation
' Purpose:
' Generates a string describing the current state of the
' available drives.
' Demonstrates the following
' - FileSystemObject.Drives
' - Iterating the Drives collection
' - Drives.Count
' - Drive.AvailableSpace
' - Drive.DriveLetter
' - Drive.DriveType
' - Drive.FileSystem
' - Drive.FreeSpace
' - Drive.IsReady
' - Drive.Path
' - Drive.SerialNumber
' - Drive.ShareName
' - Drive.TotalSize
' - Drive.VolumeName
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Function GenerateDriveInformation(FSO)
Dim Drives
Dim Drive
Dim S
Set Drives = FSO.Drives
S = "Number of drives:" & TabStop & Drives.Count & NewLine & NewLine
' Construct 1st line of report.
S = S & String(2, TabStop) & "Drive"
S = S & String(3, TabStop) & "File"
S = S & TabStop & "Total"
S = S & TabStop & "Free"
S = S & TabStop & "Available"
S = S & TabStop & "Serial" & NewLine
' Construct 2nd line of report.
S = S & "Letter"
S = S & TabStop & "Path"
S = S & TabStop & "Type"
S = S & TabStop & "Ready?"
S = S & TabStop & "Name"
S = S & TabStop & "System"
S = S & TabStop & "Space"
S = S & TabStop & "Space"
S = S & TabStop & "Space"
S = S & TabStop & "Number" & NewLine
' Separator line.
S = S & String(105, "-") & NewLine
For Each Drive In Drives
S = S & Drive.DriveLetter
S = S & TabStop & Drive.Path
S = S & TabStop & ShowDriveType(Drive)
S = S & TabStop & Drive.IsReady
If Drive.IsReady Then
If DriveTypeNetwork = Drive.DriveType Then
S = S & TabStop & Drive.ShareName
Else
S = S & TabStop & Drive.VolumeName
End If
S = S & TabStop & Drive.FileSystem
S = S & TabStop & Drive.TotalSize
S = S & TabStop & Drive.FreeSpace
S = S & TabStop & Drive.AvailableSpace
S = S & TabStop & Hex(Drive.SerialNumber)
End If
S = S & NewLine
Next
GenerateDriveInformation = S
End Function
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' GenerateFileInformation
' Purpose:
' Generates a string describing the current state of a file.
' Demonstrates the following
' - File.Path
' - File.Name
' - File.Type
' - File.DateCreated
' - File.DateLastAccessed
' - File.DateLastModified
' - File.Size
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Function GenerateFileInformation(File)
Dim S
S = NewLine & "Path:" & TabStop & File.Path
S = S & NewLine & "Name:" & TabStop & File.Name
S = S & NewLine & "Type:" & TabStop & File.Type
S = S & NewLine & "Attribs:" & TabStop & ShowFileAttr(File)
S = S & NewLine & "Created:" & TabStop & File.DateCreated
S = S & NewLine & "Accessed:" & TabStop & File.DateLastAccessed
S = S & NewLine & "Modified:" & TabStop & File.DateLastModified
S = S & NewLine & "Size" & TabStop & File.Size & NewLine
GenerateFileInformation = S
End Function
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' GenerateFolderInformation
' Purpose:
' Generates a string describing the current state of a folder.
' Demonstrates the following
' - Folder.Path
' - Folder.Name
' - Folder.DateCreated
' - Folder.DateLastAccessed
' - Folder.DateLastModified
' - Folder.Size
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Function GenerateFolderInformation(Folder)
Dim S
S = "Path:" & TabStop & Folder.Path
S = S & NewLine & "Name:" & TabStop & Folder.Name
S = S & NewLine & "Attribs:" & TabStop & ShowFileAttr(Folder)
S = S & NewLine & "Created:" & TabStop & Folder.DateCreated
S = S & NewLine & "Accessed:" & TabStop & Folder.DateLastAccessed
S = S & NewLine & "Modified:" & TabStop & Folder.DateLastModified
S = S & NewLine & "Size:" & TabStop & Folder.Size & NewLine
GenerateFolderInformation = S
End Function
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' GenerateAllFolderInformation
' Purpose:
' Generates a string describing the current state of a
' folder and all files and subfolders.
' Demonstrates the following
' - Folder.Path
' - Folder.SubFolders
' - Folders.Count
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Function GenerateAllFolderInformation(Folder)
Dim S
Dim SubFolders
Dim SubFolder
Dim Files
Dim File
S = "Folder:" & TabStop & Folder.Path & NewLine & NewLine
Set Files = Folder.Files
If 1 = Files.Count Then
S = S & "There is 1 file" & NewLine
Else
S = S & "There are " & Files.Count & " files" & NewLine
End If
If Files.Count <> 0 Then
For Each File In Files
S = S & GenerateFileInformation(File)
Next
End If
Set SubFolders = Folder.SubFolders
If 1 = SubFolders.Count Then
S = S & NewLine & "There is 1 sub folder" & NewLine & NewLine
Else
S = S & NewLine & "There are " & SubFolders.Count & " sub folders" & NewLine & NewLine
End If
If SubFolders.Count <> 0 Then
For Each SubFolder In SubFolders
S = S & GenerateFolderInformation(SubFolder)
Next
S = S & NewLine
For Each SubFolder In SubFolders
S = S & GenerateAllFolderInformation(SubFolder)
Next
End If
GenerateAllFolderInformation = S
End Function
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' GenerateTestInformation
' Purpose:
' Generates a string describing the current state of the C:\Test
' folder and all files and subfolders.
' Demonstrates the following
' - FileSystemObject.DriveExists
' - FileSystemObject.FolderExists
' - FileSystemObject.GetFolder
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Function GenerateTestInformation(FSO)
Dim TestFolder
Dim S
If Not FSO.DriveExists(TestDrive) Then Exit Function
If Not FSO.FolderExists(TestFilePath) Then Exit Function
Set TestFolder = FSO.GetFolder(TestFilePath)
GenerateTestInformation = GenerateAllFolderInformation(TestFolder)
End Function
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' DeleteTestDirectory
' Purpose:
' Cleans up the test directory.
' Demonstrates the following
' - FileSystemObject.GetFolder
' - FileSystemObject.DeleteFile
' - FileSystemObject.DeleteFolder
' - Folder.Delete
' - File.Delete
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Sub DeleteTestDirectory(FSO)
Dim TestFolder
Dim SubFolder
Dim File
'
' Two ways to delete a file:
FSO.DeleteFile(TestFilePath & "\LoremIpsum\Paragraph1.txt")
Set File = FSO.GetFile(TestFilePath & "\LoremIpsum\Paragraph2.txt")
File.Delete
' Two ways to delete a folder:
FSO.DeleteFolder(TestFilePath & "\LoremIpsum")
FSO.DeleteFile(TestFilePath & "\ReadMe.txt")
Set TestFolder = FSO.GetFolder(TestFilePath)
TestFolder.Delete
End Sub
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' CreateLyrics
' Purpose:
' Builds a couple of text files in a folder.
' Demonstrates the following
' - FileSystemObject.CreateTextFile
' - TextStream.WriteLine
' - TextStream.Write
' - TextStream.WriteBlankLines
' - TextStream.Close
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Sub CreateLyrics(Folder)
Dim TextStream
'
Set TextStream = Folder.CreateTextFile("Paragraph1.txt")
'
' Note that this does not add a line feed to the file.
TextStream.Write("Lorem Ipsum - Paragraph 1")
TextStream.WriteBlankLines(1)
TextStream.WriteLine("Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas sem.")
TextStream.WriteLine("Donec ante. Nulla facilisi. Phasellus interdum nulla a nunc. Morbi laoreet nunc.")
TextStream.WriteBlankLines(2)
TextStream.Close
Set TextStream = Folder.CreateTextFile("Paragraph2.txt")
TextStream.WriteLine("Lorem Ipsum - Paragraph 2")
TextStream.WriteBlankLines(1)
TextStream.WriteLine("Nullam nulla quam, sollicitudin ut, lobortis ornare, tristique a, augue.")
TextStream.WriteLine("Vestibulum sem felis, fermentum eu, volutpat eu, vulputate eget, elit. ")
TextStream.WriteBlankLines(2)
TextStream.Close
End Sub
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' GetLyrics
' Purpose:
' Displays the contents of the lyrics files.
' Demonstrates the following
' - FileSystemObject.OpenTextFile
' - FileSystemObject.GetFile
' - TextStream.ReadAll
' - TextStream.Close
' - File.OpenAsTextStream
' - TextStream.AtEndOfStream
' - TextStream.ReadLine
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Function GetLyrics(FSO)
Dim TextStream
Dim S
Dim File
' There are several ways to open a text file, and several
' ways to read the data out of a file. Here's two ways
' to do each:
Set TextStream = FSO.OpenTextFile(TestFilePath & "\LoremIpsum\Paragraph1.txt", OpenFileForReading)
'
S = TextStream.ReadAll & NewLine & NewLine
TextStream.Close
Set File = FSO.GetFile(TestFilePath & "\LoremIpsum\Paragraph2.txt")
Set TextStream = File.OpenAsTextStream(OpenFileForReading)
Do While Not TextStream.AtEndOfStream
S = S & TextStream.ReadLine & NewLine
Loop
TextStream.Close
GetLyrics = S
End Function
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' BuildTestDirectory
' Purpose:
' Builds a directory hierarchy to demonstrate the FileSystemObject.
' We'll build a hierarchy in this order:
' C:\Test
' C:\Test\ReadMe.txt
' C:\Test\LoremIpsum
' C:\Test\LoremIpsum\Paragraph1.txt
' C:\Test\LoremIpsum\Paragraph2.txt
' Demonstrates the following
' - FileSystemObject.DriveExists
' - FileSystemObject.FolderExists
' - FileSystemObject.CreateFolder
' - FileSystemObject.CreateTextFile
' - Folders.Add
' - Folder.CreateTextFile
' - TextStream.WriteLine
' - TextStream.Close
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Function BuildTestDirectory(FSO)
Dim TestFolder
Dim SubFolders
Dim SubFolder
Dim TextStream
' Bail out if (a) the drive does not exist, or if (b) the directory is being built
' already exists.
If Not FSO.DriveExists(TestDrive) Then
BuildTestDirectory = False
Exit Function
End If
If FSO.FolderExists(TestFilePath) Then
BuildTestDirectory = False
Exit Function
End If
Set TestFolder = FSO.CreateFolder(TestFilePath)
Set TextStream = FSO.CreateTextFile(TestFilePath & "\ReadMe.txt")
TextStream.WriteLine("My sample text collection")
TextStream.Close
Set SubFolders = TestFolder.SubFolders
Set SubFolder = SubFolders.Add("LoremIpsum")
CreateLyrics SubFolder
BuildTestDirectory = True
End Function
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' The main routine
' First, it creates a test directory, along with some subfolders
' and files. Then, it dumps some information about the available
' disk drives and about the test directory, and then cleans
' everything up again.
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Sub Main
Dim FSO
' Set up global data.
TabStop = Chr(9)
NewLine = Chr(10)
'
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If Not BuildTestDirectory(FSO) Then
Print "Test directory already exists or cannot be created. Cannot continue."
Exit Sub
End If
Print GenerateDriveInformation(FSO) & NewLine & NewLine
Print GenerateTestInformation(FSO) & NewLine & NewLine
Print GetLyrics(FSO) & NewLine & NewLine
DeleteTestDirectory(FSO)
End Sub
Sub Print(x)
WScript.Echo x
End Sub
Main