Programmer Guide/Shell Items/File/FILE Item Attributes

The following file item attributes can be queried in the format $#fileItem[Attribute].

Common file item attributes

Attribute	Value(s) and Description
!PATH	full path of the file attached to the respective file item
!DRIVE	the drive letter of the file attached to the respective file item (without a colon)
!DIRECTORY	the directory of the file attached to the respective file item (without a trailing backslash)
!NAME	the name of file attached to the respective file item
!EXTENSION	extension part of the filename of the file attached to the respective file item (without a leading ".")
!CREATED	yyyy.mm.dd hh.mm.ss	creation date and time of file attached to the file item
!MODIFIED	yyyy.mm.dd hh.mm.ss	time of last modification of file attached to the file item
!ATTRIBUTES	DIRECTORY|SYSTEM|HIDDEN|NORMAL	type attributes of file attached to the file item
!ACCESS	READ|WRITE|APPEND	access attributes of file attached to the file item
!SIZE	filesize	size of file attached to the file item in bytes
!TYPE	FILE|LIST|TEXT|SECTION|XML	type of file item (set in NEW command)
!SHELL	owner	shellidid of shell creating the file item (8 hex digits)
!USERS	numusers	number of linked items sharing the file item
!LASTACCESS	yyyy.mm.dd hh.mm.ss	date and time of the last access to the file attached to the file item
!CHANGED	1|0	A value of 1 indicates that the file has been changed in memory and has not been saved yet. A value of 0 indicates that the file in memory is identical to that on disk.
	assigning 1 or 0	You may programmatically set, or reset, the value of the !CHANGED attribute by assigning 1, or 0, to this attribute: $#file[!changed] := 1 // set the attribute $#file[!changed] := 0 // reset the attribute Warning: this functionality changed in version 3.9.0. Previously, setting the attribute using '1' would reset the attribute, and using the value '0' was unsupported.

Binary file items

Attribute	Value(s)	Description
!BININFO	number of sections	After a LIST command, !BININFO will return the index of the last section loaded/saved.
		After a LOAD command -1, if the file is not a binary file, or the last command failed.

GDX file items

The GDX file item supports the following attributes in addition to the general file item attributes.

Attribute	Value(s) and Description
!DATA	The !DATA attribute returns data from the GDX file. $#gdx[!DATA] // returns all the data $#gdx[!DATA,index,count] // returns one or more columns Here the index argument determines the first column, and the count argument determines the number of columns to return.
!DATATYPE	The !DATATYPE attribute returns the data type of this GDX file (See Creating a GDX file for details).
!NCOL	The !NCOL attribute returns the number of columns.
!NROW	The !NROW attribute returns the number of rows.
!NWRITTEN	The !NWRITTEN attribute returns the number of columns which have been written (rather than defined).

XML file items

General attributes of XML file items

Attribute	Value(s)	Description
!XROOT	root_element_nametag	name of the root element
!XPARENT	parent_element_nametag	name of the parent element
!XPARENTPATH	root_element_name\…\parent_element_name	full path of the parent element
!XELEMENTS	elementcountnumber	of elements on selected element level
!XNODETYPE	ELEMENT|COMMENT|PROC|DOCTYPE	type of the selected node

Attributes of the selected element of an XML file item

Attribute	Argument	Value(s) and Description
!XALL
		a list of all element parts
	tag	element tag name
	empty	1 if element data is empty, 0 otherwise
	cdata	1 if element data is a CData-section, 0 otherwise
	childs	number of child elements
	size	size of data section (characters)
	nattr	number of attributes
	attr0,…	name of attribute 0, … (0 to nattr-1)
!XTAG	-	element_tag
!XATTRIBUTES	-	number_of_attributes
!XATTRIBUTE	index	attribute_name name of attribute number index
!XATTRIBUTE	name	attribute_value value of attribute named name
!XEMPTY	-	returns 1 if element is empty (no data) and 0 otherwise
!XCDATA	-	returns 1 if element contains a CData section and 0 otherwise
!XCHILDS or !XCHILDREN	-	returns number of child elements of the selected element
!XSIZE	-	size of data section in characters
!XDATA	-	content of data section

Document/element type definition attributes of an XML file item

Attribute-Id	Sub-Id 1	Sub-Id 2	Value(s) and Description
!XDTNAME	-	-	name of document type definition
!XDTROOT	-	-	tag of root element
!XDTELEMENTS	-	-	number of defined element types
!XDTELEMENT	index or tag	-	definition of element type with specified index or tag; the result is tag parent base nobase data with: tag element tag parent parent element tag or * base base element tag or * nobase nobase element tag or * data data type name or *
!XDTCHILDREN	tag	-	number of children defined for element tag
!XDTCHILD	tag	cindex or ctag	definition of child cindex or ctag of the element tag. The result is:ctag min maxwith: ctag tag of child element min number of minimum occurrences max number of maximum occurrences or -1 if not defined
!XDTATTRIBUTES	tag	-	number of attributes defined for element tag
!XTDATTRIBUTE	tag	aindex or aname	definition of attribute aindex or aname of element tag. The result is:aname req vis val type paramswith: aname name of attribute req required flag (0=no, 1=yes) vis visibility flag (0=hidden, 1=value, 2=name and value) val default value of * if not set type attribute value type (INTEGER, NUMBER, STRING, VALUELIST) params INTEGER minval|* maxval|* NUMBER minval|* maxval|* STRING unique{0|1} respect{0|1} VALUELIST value1 value2 …
!XDTISA	tag	none	returns 1 if the selected element of the file item is of type tag or is derived from tag and 0 otherwise