File System Operations

File System Object Model: The File System Object (FSO) model provides an object-based tool for working with folders and files. It allows us to use the familiar object. method syntax with a rich set of properties, methods, and events to process folders and files. We can also employ the traditional Visual Basic statements and commands. The FSO model gives our application the ability to create, alter, move, and delete folders, or to determine if and where particular folders exist. It also enables us to get information about folders, such as their names and the date they were created or last modified. The FSO model makes processing files much easier as well. When processing files, our primary goal is to store data in an efficient, easy-to-access format. We need to be able to create files, insert and change the data, and output (read) the data. Although we can store data in a database, doing so adds a significant amount of overhead to our application. We may not want to have such overhead, or our data access requirements may not call for the extra functionality associated with a full-featured database. In this case, storing our data in a text file or binary file is the most efficient solution. The FSO model, contained in the Scripting type library (Scrrun.dll), supports the creation and manipulation of text files through the TextStream object; however, the FSO model does not support binary files. To manipulate binary files, use the FileOpen Function with the Binary keyword. FileSystemObject Main object. Contains methods and properties that allow you to create, delete, gain information about, and generally manipulate drives, folders, and files. Many of the methods associated with this object duplicate those in other FSO objects; they are provided for convenience. Drive Object This Object Contains methods and properties that allow you to gather information about a drive attached to the system, such as its share name and how much room is available. Note that a "drive" isn't necessarily a hard disk, but can be a CD-ROM drive, a RAM disk, and so forth. A drive doesn't need to be physically attached to the system; it can be also be logically connected through a network. Folder Object This Object contains methods and properties that allow you to create, delete, or move folders. Also allows you to query the system for folder names, paths, and various other properties. TextStream Object This Object allows you to read and write text files. Examples:

1) Read Content from a text file and Write in another text file Dim objFso, myFile1, myFile2, x Set objFso=createobject("Scripting.Filesystemobject") Set myFile1=objFso.opentextfile("C:\Documents and Settings\gcr\Desktop\gcreddy.txt",1) Set myFile2=objFso.createtextfile("C:\Documents and Settings\gcr\Desktop\gcrqtp.txt",1) Do Until myFile1.AtEndOfStream=True x=myFile1.Readline myFile2.Writeline x Loop myFile1.Close myFile2.Close Set objFso=Nothing 2) Read Numbers only from a text file and export to another text file Dim objFso, objTextStream, myText, x set objFso=createobject("Scripting.Filesystemobject") set objTextStream=objFso.opentextfile("C:\Documents and Settings\gcr\Desktop\gcreddy.txt",1) Set objTextStream2=objFso.opentextfile("C:\Documents and Settings\gcr\Desktop\gcrqtp.txt",2) objTextStream2.WriteLine "Numbers" objTextStream2.WriteLine "---------" Do Until objTextStream.AtEndOfStream myText=objTextStream.ReadLine x=split(myText," ") For i=lbound(x) to ubound(x) If isnumeric(x(i)) =True Then objTextStream2.WriteLine x(i) End if Next Loop objTextStream.Close objTextStream2.Close Set objFso=Nothing 3) 'Count Lines in a Text File Dim objFso, objTextstream, LineCount Set objFso=CreateObject("Scripting.filesystemobject")

Set objTextstream=objFso.OpenTextFile("C:\Documents and Settings\gcr\Desktop\abc.txt") Do While Not objTextstream.AtEndOfStream LineCount = LineCount + 1 objTextstream.ReadLine Loop Msgbox LineCount objTextstream.Close Set objTextstream=Nothing Set objFso=Nothing +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

File System Scripts

1) Create a Folder Option Explicit Dim objFSO, objFolder, strDirectory strDirectory = "D:\Gcreddy" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFolder = objFSO.CreateFolder(strDirectory) 2) Delete a Folder Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") oFSO.DeleteFolder("E:\Gcreddy") 3) Copying Folders Set oFSO=createobject("Scripting.Filesystemobject") oFSO.CopyFolder "E:\gcr", "C:\jvr", True 4) Checking weather the folder available or not, if not creating the folder Option Explicit Dim objFSO, objFolder, strDirectory strDirectory = "D:\Gcreddy" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") If objFSO.FolderExists(strDirectory) Then Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strDirectory) msgbox strDirectory & " already created " else Set objFolder = objFSO.CreateFolder(strDirectory) end if

5) Returning a collection of Disk Drives Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set colDrives = oFSO.Drives For Each oDrive in colDrives MsgBox "Drive letter: " & oDrive.DriveLetter Next

6) Getting available space on a Disk Drive Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set oDrive = oFSO.GetDrive("C:") MsgBox "Available space: " & oDrive.AvailableSpace

Flat File Scripts

Computer File System It is a feature of the Operating System, used to Create/Modify/view/delete Drives, Folders and Files OS Distribution Operating System and Other Utilities FileSystemObject VBScript has Provided FileSystemObject to perform file system operations through scripting Dim objFso 'Creating an Automation Object in File System class, that can be used to perform Operations on Computer File System Set objFso=CreateObject("scripting.FileSystemObject") 1) Creating a File Dim objFso Set objFso=CreateObject("scripting.FileSystemObject") objFso.CreateTextFile ("E:\Gcreddy.txt") objFso.CreateTextFile ("E:\Gcreddy.doc") objFso.CreateTextFile ("E:\Gcreddy.xls") objFso.CreateTextFile ("E:\Gcreddy.pdf") Note: We can Create other files also, but they act as Text/Flat Files Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("E:\Gcreddy.txt")

2) Checking weather the File is available or not, if not creating the File strDirectory="E:\" strFile="Gcreddy.txt" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") If objFSO.FileExists(strDirectory & strFile) Then Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strDirectory) Else Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("E:\Gcreddy.txt") End if 3) Reading Data character by character from a Flat File Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("E:\Gcreddy.txt", 1) Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream strCharacters = objFile.Read(1) msgbox strCharacters Loop 4) Reading Data line by line from a Flat File Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("E:\Gcreddy.txt", 1) Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream strCharacters = objFile.Readline msgbox strCharacters Loop 5) Data Driven Testing by fetching Test data directly from a Text file. ************************************************** 'Test Requirement: Data Driven Testing by Fetching Test data directly from a Text file. 'Author: G C Reddy 'Date of Creation: 13-08-2010 'Pre-requisites: 'gcr.txt (Test Data) 'Test Flow: 'Creating an Automation Object in FileSystem class

'Opening the External Test Data file using the Object 'Read the Data & Split the Data 'Generating the Login Operation 'Pass Parameters '************************************************* Dim objFso, myFile, myLine, myField Set objFso=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set myFile=objFso.OpenTextFile("C:\Documents and Settings\gcr.GCRC-9A12FBD3D9\Desktop\vindod.txt",1) '1 for Read, 2-Write & 8-Append myFile.SkipLine Do Until myFile.AtEndOfStream myLine=myFile.ReadLine myField=Split(myLine,",") SystemUtil.Run "C:\Program Files\HP\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe" Dialog("text:=Login").Activate Dialog("text:=Login").WinEdit("attached text:=Agent Name:").Set myField(0) Dialog("text:=Login").WinEdit("attached text:=Password:").Set myField(1) wait 2 Dialog("text:=Login").WinButton("text:=OK").Click Window("text:=Flight Reservation").Close Loop myFile.Close Set objFso=Nothing 6) Writing data to a text file Dim Stuff, myFSO, WriteStuff, dateStamp dateStamp = Date() Stuff = "I am Preparing this script: " &dateStamp Set myFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set WriteStuff = myFSO.OpenTextFile("e:\Gcreddy.txt", 8, True) WriteStuff.WriteLine(Stuff) WriteStuff.Close SET WriteStuff = NOTHING SET myFSO = NOTHING 7) Delete a text file Set objFSO=createobject("Scripting.filesystemobject") Set txtFilepath = objFSO.GetFile("E:\gcr.txt") txtFilepath.Delete()

8) Checking weather the File is available or not, if available delete the File strDirectory="E:\" strFile="gcr.txt" Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") If objFSO.FileExists(strDirectory & strFile) Then Set objFile = objFSO.Getfile(strDirectory & strFile) objFile.delete () End if 9) Comparing two text files Dim f1, f2 f1="e:\Gcreddy1.txt" f2="e:\Gcreddy2.txt" Public Function CompareFiles (FilePath1, FilePath2) Dim FS, File1, File2 Set FS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") If FS.GetFile(FilePath1).Size <> FS.GetFile(FilePath2).Size Then CompareFiles = True Exit Function End If Set File1 = FS.GetFile(FilePath1).OpenAsTextStream(1, 0) Set File2 = FS.GetFile(FilePath2).OpenAsTextStream(1, 0) CompareFiles = False Do While File1.AtEndOfStream = False Str1 = File1.Read Str2 = File2.Read CompareFiles = StrComp(Str1, Str2, 0) If CompareFiles <> 0 Then CompareFiles = True Exit Do End If Loop File1.Close() File2.Close() End Function Call Comparefiles(f1,f2) If CompareFiles(f1, f2) = False Then MsgBox "Files are identical." Else MsgBox "Files are different." End If

10) Counting the number of times a word appears in a file sFileName="E:\gcr.txt" sString="gcreddy" Const FOR_READING = 1 Dim oFso, oTxtFile, sReadTxt, oRegEx, oMatches Set oFso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set oTxtFile = oFso.OpenTextFile(sFileName, FOR_READING) sReadTxt = oTxtFile.ReadAll Set oRegEx = New RegExp oRegEx.Pattern = sString oRegEx.IgnoreCase = bIgnoreCase oRegEx.Global = True Set oMatches = oRegEx.Execute(sReadTxt) MatchesFound = oMatches.Count Set oTxtFile = Nothing : Set oFso = Nothing : Set oRegEx = Nothing msgbox MatchesFound 11) Read a CSV File Using Database Techniques On Error Resume Next Const adOpenStatic = 3 Const adLockOptimistic = 3 Const adCmdText = &H0001 Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") Set objRecordSet = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") strPathtoTextFile = "C:\Databases\" objConnection.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _ "Data Source=" & strPathtoTextFile & ";" & _ "Extended Properties=""text;HDR=YES;FMT=Delimited""" objRecordset.Open "SELECT * FROM PhoneList.csv", _ objConnection, adOpenStatic, adLockOptimistic, adCmdText Do Until objRecordset.EOF Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objRecordset.Fields.Item("Name") Wscript.Echo "Department: " & _ objRecordset.Fields.Item("Department") Wscript.Echo "Extension: " & objRecordset.Fields.Item("Extension") objRecordset.MoveNext

Loop 12) Read a Text File into an Array Const ForReading = 1 Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile _ ("e:\gcreddy.txt", ForReading) Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream strNextLine = objTextFile.Readline arrServiceList = Split(strNextLine , ",") Wscript.Echo "Server name: " & arrServiceList(0) For i = 1 to Ubound(arrServiceList) Wscript.Echo "Service: " & arrServiceList(i) Next Loop 13) 'Calculate size of a Text file Dim objFso, File1,File2 File1="C:\Documents and Settings\1 RIGHATWAY\Desktop\xyz.txt" Set objFso=CreateObject(" Scripting.FileSystemObject") x= objFso.GetFile(File1).Size Msgbox x& " Bytes" 14) 'Test Requirement: Open 1 to 10 orders in Flight Reservation , Capture Customer names and Export into a Text file 'Test Flow: 'Login Operation 'Open Order Operation and form the Loop to open 1 to 10 Orders 'Capture Cusomer names using GetROProperty Method 'Create File system Object and Open the Text file using the Object and Export Cusomer names '---------------------------------------------------------------------------Option Explicit Dim Order_Number, Customer_Name, objFso, myFile Set objFso=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set myFile= objFso.CreateTextFile ("C:\Documents and Settings\1 RIGHATWAY\Desktop\abcNew.txt",2) myFile.WriteLine "Cusomer Names" myFile.WriteLine "--------------------" If Not Window("Flight Reservation").Exist(3) Then

SystemUtil.Run "C:\Program Files\HP\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe","","C:\Program Files\HP\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\","open" Dialog("Login").Activate Dialog("Login").WinEdit("Agent Name:").Set "asdf" Dialog("Login").WinEdit("Password:").SetSecure "4c48590870466b8dc050bbd24e816890c747ccf8" Dialog("Login").WinButton("OK").Click End If For Order_Number= 1 to 10 step 1 Window("Flight Reservation").Activate Window("Flight Reservation").WinButton("Button").Click Window("Flight Reservation").Dialog("Open Order").WinCheckBox("Order No.").Set "ON" Window("Flight Reservation").Dialog("Open Order").WinEdit("Edit").Set Order_Number Window("Flight Reservation").Dialog("Open Order").WinButton("OK").Click Customer_Name = Window("Flight Reservation").WinEdit("Name:").GetROProperty("text") wait (2) myFile.WriteLine Customer_Name Next myFile.Close Set objFso=Nothing 15) '****************************************************** 'Test Requirement: Capturing all Buttons Names from the Login Dialog box and exporting to a Text file 'Author: G C Reddy 'Date of Creation: 13-08-2010 'Pre-requasites: 'gcr.txt 'Test Flow: 'Creating an Automation Object in FileSystem class 'Opening the External Test Data file using the Object 'Creating Collection object and Capturing Button Names using the Object 'Writing Button Names to an External Text file '******************************************************** Dim objFso, myFile, oButton, Buttons, TotButtons Set objFso=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set myFile=objFso.OpenTextFile("C:\Documents and Settings\gcr.GCRC-9A12FBD3D9\Desktop\vindod.txt",2) '1 for Read, 2-Write & 8-Append myFile.WriteLine "Button Names" myFile.WriteLine "----------"

Set oButton=Description.Create oButton("micclass").value="WinButton" SystemUtil.Run "C:\Program Files\HP\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe" Set Buttons=Dialog("text:=Login").ChildObjects(oButton) TotButtons=Buttons.Count For i= 0 to TotButtons-1 myButton=Buttons(i).GetRoProperty("text") myFile.WriteLine myButton Next myFile.Close Set objFso=Nothing 16) Delete a Text file if it is an empty file Dim objFso, FilePath FilePath="C:\Documents and Settings\gcreddy\Desktop\abc.txt" Set objFso=CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") FileSize=objFso.GetFile(FilePath).Size 'Msgbox FileSize If FileSize=0 Then objFso.DeleteFile(FilePath) End If Set objFso=Nothing