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Revision as of 11:03, 29 September 2014
Unit: Lazarus fileutil (UTF-8 replacements for FPC RTL code and additional file/directory handling)
// flags for copy
type
TCopyFileFlag = (
cffOverwriteFile,
cffCreateDestDirectory,
cffPreserveTime
);
TCopyFileFlags = set of TCopyFileFlag;
function CopyFile(const SrcFilename, DestFilename: string): boolean;
function CopyFile(const SrcFilename, DestFilename: string; PreserveTime: boolean): boolean;
function CopyFile(const SrcFilename, DestFilename: string; Flags: TCopyFileFlags=[cffOverwriteFile]): boolean;
copyfile copies a source file to a destination file location. Optionally it preserves the file's timestamp.
Example:
uses
...
fileutil
...
CopyFile('c:\autoexec.bat','c:\windows\temp\autoexec.bat.backup');
Function result Returns True if successful, False if there was an error
Note: If you want to use this function in command line programs, add a project requirement for LCLBase, which will not pull in the entire LCL