File operations

Appends all text to file

Appends all provided text to a file. If the file does not exist, it is created.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	Path to file to append text to.
Text to append	Text.
Code page	Specifies which code page to write the text in. Default 65001 (UTF-8 with BOM). Use 0 for UTF-8 without BOM.

Output

No output.

Since

6.0

Appends all lines to file

Appends all provided lines to a file. If the file does not exist, it is created.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	Path to file to append lines to.
Lines	Lines to append.
Code page	Specifies which code page to write the lines in. Default 65001 (UTF-8 with BOM). Use 0 for UTF-8 without BOM.

Output

No output.

Since

6.0

Check if file exists

Determains whether file at specified path exists.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	The path to the file to check. Path can be UNC path or local file path.

Output

Simple value, 'True' if file exists. 'False' otherwise.

Since

6.0

Copy file

Copies a file to a new location.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Source	The file to move. Path can be UNC path or local file path.
Destination	The location of the file. Path can be UNC path or local file path.
Overwrite if destination file exists	If set to True and destination file already exists, it is overwritten. If set to false and file already exists, no copy operation is done.

Output

Simple value, 'True' if file was successfully copied. 'False' otherwise.

Since

6.0

Delete file

Deletes file at provided path.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	The path to file to delete.

Output

Simple value, 'True' if file was successfully deleted. 'False' otherwise.

Since

6.0

Get files modification times

Gets a record containing files modification times.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	The path to get modification times from.
As UTC	True to get the modification times in UTC.

Output

Record with members 'CreationTime', 'LastWriteTime' and 'LastAccessTime'

Since

6.0

Move file

Moves a file to a new location.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Source	The file to move. Path can be UNC path or local file path.
Destination	The location of the file. Path can be UNC path or local file path.
Overwrite destination file if it exists	If set to True and destination file already exists, it is overwritten. If set to false and file already exists, no move operation is done.

Output

Simple value, 'True' if file was successfully moved. 'False' otherwise.

Since

6.0

Read all bytes from file

Reads all bytes from a file and puts it a Table variable. Reading too large files can cause performance issues.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	Path to source file to read lines from.

Output

Table with column 'value' where each row is one byte from source file.

Since

6.0

Read all lines from file

Reads all lines from a file and puts it a Table variable. Reading too large files can cause performance issues.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	Path to source file to read lines from.
Code page	Specifies which code page to read the file in. Default 65001 (UTF-8 with BOM). Use 0 for UTF-8 without BOM.

Output

Table with column 'value' where each row is one line in source file.

Since

6.0

Read all text from file

Reads all text from a file and puts it a simple value variable. Reading too large files can cause performance issues.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	Path to source file to read text from.
Code page	Specifies which code page to read the file in. Default 65001 (UTF-8 with BOM). Use 0 for UTF-8 without BOM.

Output

Simple value variable (string), with all content of file in it.

Since

6.0

Write all bytes to file

Writes all provided bytes to a file. If the file already exist, it is overwritten.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	Path to file to append text to.
Bytes	A Table containing one column, value, with numeric values (byte, 0-255).

Output

No output.

Since

6.0

Write all lines to file

Writes all provided lines to a file. If the file already exist, it is overwritten..

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	Path to file to write lines to.
Lines	Lines to write.
Code page	Specifies which code page to write the lines in. Default 65001 (UTF-8 with BOM). Use 0 for UTF-8 without BOM.

Output

No output.

Since

6.0

Write all text to file

Writes all provided text to a file. If the file already exist, it is overwritten.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	Path to file to write text to.
Text to write	Text.
Code page	Specifies which code page to write the text in. Default 65001 (UTF-8 with BOM). Use 0 for UTF-8 without BOM.

Output

No output.

Since

6.1.6

Write stream to file

Writes the content of a Flow variable that contains a binary stream to a file. This can for instance be used to write data from a camera input to the file system.

Parameters

Parameter	Description
Path	Path to file to write stream to.
Source stream	Stream to write. Must be a Flow variable.

Output

No output.

Since

6.2