Description

Returns the path of a file pointed to by the given file handle.

The file handle is one returned by the fileOpen command.

Functional area

Disk I/O

Command syntax

Syntax

Arguments

Flags

None

Return value

string

Returns the full path to the file pointed to by the given file handle.

Examples

// Create a temp file query the file path and print it to the 
// command log. This creates the file c:/temp/temp.txt 
// and returns the handle to us.
int $fileID = `fileOpen "c:/temp/temp.txt" "w"`;
string $filePath = `getFilePath $fileID`;
 
// Be sure to close the file.
fileClose $fileID;
 
// Now print out the file path
print $filePath;

Additional information

Related commands

• fileClose
• fileOpen