File, Folder and Read functions

File, Folder and Read functions operate on files and folders, like MakeDir or Storage_name or read data in specific formats, like ReadLines.

• ExistingFile - full path name of the filename argument if the file exists and the alternative argument if the file does not exist
• CreateFile - copies the source filename to the target filename
• InitFile - copies the init filename to the target filename, synonym for CreateFile
• CopyFile - copies the source filename to the target filename

• CurrentDir - the folder of the root file of the loaded configuration
• MakeDir - creates a new folder
• FullPathName - full path name of the folder_or_filename argument

• Exec - executes a command argument
• Exec_ec - executes a command with a returning exitcode
• ExecDll - executes a function in the dll

• Storage_name - value of the StorageName property

• ReadValue - a single parameter value from a string dataitem
• ReadArray - an attribute, with row(s) of values from a string dataitem
• ReadLines - an attribute with the concatenation of the values of the rows
• ReadElems - an attribute, with column(s) of values from a string dataitem

• Parse_xml - parses the contents of the argument with XML data into a set of configured attributes, based on the xml_scheme argument.