The document discusses various methods for working with files, folders, drives, flat files, word documents, and excel sheets using Visual Basic Script. Some key methods include creating, deleting, copying, and checking folders; getting drive information; reading from and writing to flat files; creating, saving and comparing word documents and excel files. The document provides code examples for performing each of these file operations.

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Working with Files
I) Computer file System
In computing, a file system (often also written as filesystem) is a method for storing
and organizing computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and
access them. File systems may use a data storage device such as a hard disk or CD-
ROM.
II) Working with Drives and Folders
a) Creating a Folder
Option Explicit
Dim objFSO, objFolder, strDirectory
strDirectory = "D:logs"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.CreateFolder(strDirectory)
b) Deleting a Folder
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
oFSO.DeleteFolder("E:FSO")
c) Copying Folders
Set oFSO=createobject("Scripting.Filesystemobject")
oFSO.CopyFolder "E:gcr6", "C:jvr", True
d) Checking weather the folder available or not, if not creating the folder
Option Explicit
Dim objFSO, objFolder, strDirectory
strDirectory = "D:logs"
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
e) 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
f) Getting available space on a Disk Drive
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Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oDrive = oFSO.GetDrive("C:")
MsgBox "Available space: " & oDrive.AvailableSpace
III) Working with Flat Files
a) Creating a Flat File
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("E:ScriptLog.txt")
b) Checking weather the File is available or not, if not creating the File
strDirectory="E:"
strFile="Scripting.txt"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If objFSO.FileExists(strDirectory & strFile) Then
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(strDirectory)
Else
Set objFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("E:ScriptLog.txt")
End if
c) Reading Data character by character from a Flat File
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("E:gcr.txt", 1)
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
strCharacters = objFile.Read(1)
msgbox strCharacters
Loop
d) Deleting Data From a Flat File
e) Comparing Flat Files
f) Searching Particular Strings in a Flat File
d) Reading Data line by line from a Flat File
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("E:gcr.txt", 1)
Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
strCharacters = objFile.Readline
msgbox strCharacters
Loop
e) Reading data from a flat file and using in data driven testing
Dim fso,myfile
Set fso=createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
Set myfile= fso.opentextfile ("F:gcr.txt",1)
myfile.skipline
While myfile.atendofline <> True
x=myfile.readline
s=split (x, ",")
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SystemUtil.Run "C:Program FilesMercury InteractiveQuickTest Professionalsamples
flightappflight4a.exe","","C:Program FilesMercury InteractiveQuickTest
Professionalsamplesflightapp","open"
Dialog("Login").Activate
Dialog("Login").WinEdit("Agent Name:").Set s(0)
Dialog("Login").WinEdit("Password:").SetSecure s(1)
Dialog("Login").WinButton("OK").Click
Window("Flight Reservation").Close
Wend
f) 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:gcr.txt", 8, True)
WriteStuff.WriteLine(Stuff)
WriteStuff.Close
SET WriteStuff = NOTHING
SET myFSO = NOTHING
g) Delete a text file
Set objFSO=createobject("Scripting.filesystemobject")
Set txtFilepath = objFSO.GetFile("E:gcr.txt")
txtFilepath.Delete()
h) 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
i) Comparing two text files
Dim f1, f2
f1="e:gcr1.txt"
f2="e:gcr2.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
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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
j) 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
IV) Working with Word Docs
a) Create a word document and enter some data & save
Dim objWD
Set objWD = CreateObject("Word.Application")
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objWD.Documents.Add
objWD.Selection.TypeText "This is some text." & Chr(13) & "This is some more text"
objWD.ActiveDocument.SaveAs "e:gcreddy.doc"
objWD.Quit
V) Working with Excel Sheets
a) Create an excel sheet and enter a value into first cell
Dim objexcel
Set objExcel = createobject("Excel.application")
objexcel.Visible = True
objexcel.Workbooks.add
objexcel.Cells(1, 1).Value = "Testing"
objexcel.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs("f:gcreddy1.xls")
objexcel.Quit
b) Compare two excel files
Set objExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
objExcel.Visible = True
Set objWorkbook1= objExcel.Workbooks.Open("E:gcr1.xls")
Set objWorkbook2= objExcel.Workbooks.Open("E:gcr2.xls")
Set objWorksheet1= objWorkbook1.Worksheets(1)
Set objWorksheet2= objWorkbook2.Worksheets(1)
For Each cell In objWorksheet1.UsedRange
If cell.Value <> objWorksheet2.Range(cell.Address).Value Then
msgbox "value is different"
Else
msgbox "value is same"
End If
Next
objWorkbook1.close
objWorkbook2.close
objExcel.quit
set objExcel=nothing
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