Shoutbox

Reading the contents of a file:
(This code contains no error handling - you're expected to add it yourself)

- See note below on file paths.

code:

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function get_file_contents(file)
{
    var fileSys = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
    var fileH = fileSys.OpenTextFile(file, 1, 0);
    var text = fileH.ReadAll();
    fileH.close();
    return text;
}

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Checking if a file exists:

- See note below on file paths.

code:

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function file_exists(file)
{
    var fileSys = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
    if(fileSys.FileExists(file))
    {
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}

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Note:
You need double slashes in the path - ex, C:\\test\\file.txt.

Also - when reading files, the base path is actually your windows profile directory (C:\Documents and Settings\....). If you need to read something from your scripts directory, then you would use:

myFile = MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath+"\\file.txt";