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DWfile.getAttributes()

Availability

Dreamweaver 2.0

Description

Gets the attributes of the specified file or folder.

Arguments

fileURL

The argument is the file or folder for which you want to get attributes, expressed as a file:// URL.

Returns

A string representing the attributes of the specified file or folder, or null if the file or folder does not exist. Characters in the string represent the attributes as follows:

R is read only.
D is folder (directory).
H is hidden.
S is system file or folder.

Example

The following code gets the attributes of the file mydata.txt and displays an alert box if the file is read only.

var URL = "file:///c|/temp/mydata.txt";
var str = DWfile.getAttributes(URL);
if (str && (str.indexOf("R") != -1)){
	alert(URL + " is read only!");
}