The Filesystem module allows interaction with directories and files on both local and network file systems.
Filesystem module functions
directoryExists
Signature: (path: text) -> boolean.
Determines whether a directory exists at the specified path.
Output: Returns True if the directory exists, False otherwise.
//path to the directory
//it is recommended to use @ to prevent potential errors caused by unescaped backslashes
let path = @"D:\testDirectory";
return FileSystem.directoryExists(path);
//The path parameter can be passed as inline value as well.
return FileSystem.directoryExists(@"D:\testDirectory");
createDirectory
Signature: (path: text) -> text.
Creates all directories at the specified path. This operation does not duplicate existing directories. An error will be thrown if the path contains invalid characters.
Output: Returns the path of the newly created directory.
// path & name of the directory that should be created.
//it is recommended to use @ to prevent potential errors caused by unescaped backslashes
let path = @"D:\testDirectory\subDirectory";
let createdFilePath = FileSystem.createDirectory(path);
//The path parameter can be passed as inline value as well.
let createdFilePath = FileSystem.createDirectory(@"D:\testDirectory\subDirectory");
write
Signature: (path: text, content: text | text*)
Signature: (path: text, content: text | text*, isOverwrite: bool)
Writes the specified text or sequence of texts to a file within an existing directory. If a file with the given name already exists, the isOverwrite parameter determines whether it should be replaced.
let file1 = @"D:\testDirectory\subDirectory\TextContent.txt";
let file2 = @"D:\testDirectory\subDirectory\SequenceContent.txt";
let textContent = "This is a sample text content";
let sequenceContent = ["text line 1", "text line 2", "text line 3"];
//Writing text content to a file
Do FileSystem.write(file1 , textContent);
//Writing a table/sequence to a file
Do FileSystem.write(file2 , sequenceContent);
