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  • Finding out the short path of a file
fShortPath (Example)
Finding out the short path of a file
The following code is used to find out the short path of a file. The file name and path are selected by fSelect.
// Declare the variables
FilePath is string
ResShortPath is string
 
// Select a file
FilePath = fSelect("C:\MyDirectories", "", "Selecting a file", ...
"All files (*.*)" + TAB + "*.*", "", fselOpen + fselExist)
 
// Retrieve the short path
ResShortPath = fShortPath(FilePath)
 
// Display an error message if the retrieval was not performed
IF ResShortPath = "" THEN
Error(ErrorInfo(errMessage))
ELSE
  // Display the short path
  Info("The short path is: " + ResShortPath)
END
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  • Version 9
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Last update: 08/22/2022

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