MoveFile Method

Description

Moves one or more files from one location to another.

PowerBASIC Syntax

METHOD MoveFile ( _

BYVAL bstrSource AS STRING, _

BYVAL bstrDestination AS STRING _

)

Arguments

bstrSource	BSTR. The path to the file or files to be moved. The bstrSource argument string can contain wildcard characters in the last path component only.
bstrDestination	BSTR. The path where the file or files are to be moved. The bstrDestination argument can't contain wildcard characters.

Remarks

If bstrSource contains wildcards or bstrDestination ends with a path separator (\), it is assumed that bstrDestination specifies an existing folder in which to move the matching files. Otherwise, destination is assumed to be the name of a destination file to create. In either case, three things can happen when an individual file is moved:

•	If destination does not exist, the file gets moved. This is the usual case.

•	If destination is an existing file, an error occurs.

•	If destination is a directory, an error occurs.

An error also occurs if a wildcard character that is used in source doesn't match any files. The MoveFile method stops on the first error it encounters. No attempt is made to roll back any changes made before the error occurs.

Note This method allows moving files between volumes only if supported by the operating system.

Example [PowerBASIC]

#INCLUDE "windows.inc"

#INCLUDE "scrrun.inc"

DIM fso AS IFileSystem

' Create an instance of the FileSystemObject

fso = NEWCOM "Scripting.FileSystemObject"

' Move a file

fso.MoveFile UCODE$("C:\MyFolder\Test.txt"), UCODE$("C:\MyFolder\MySubFolder\")

IF OBJRESULT = %S_OK THEN

MSGBOX "File moved"

ELSE

MSGBOX "Error &H" & HEX$(OBJRESULT) & " moving the file"

END IF

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