Handling Files and Directories

Reading and writing files is greatly simplified by using the FILE object. This chapter describes the methods most frequently used for reading and writing.

Methods are also provided for moving, copying and deleting files and extracting information such as the pathname of a file, its size data and time last modified.

A FILE object may refer to a directory rather than a file and methods are provided for navigating around the directory structure.

For a complete list of the methods available, refer to the Software Customization Reference documentation.