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Good day,

I would have "thought" that in a discipline such as programming, that the language that accompanies such a discipline - that is, "the syntax", must, of necessity, be "explicit" - and NOT "implicit"?

Though the HelpFile is deemed by many to be of some practicable employment - I personally tend to find the HelpFile rather ambiguous.

For example, the documentation provided for FileCopy makes two inappropriate assumptions,

1) No information is provided on the employment of the "trailing backslash"...and...
2) No in-depth clarification is provided on $FC_CREATEPATH.

Whether such ambiguity is intentional-or-not - I would appreciate it if such }assertions" were explicit noted at the outset.

Regarding FileCopy, I would like to provide the following...in the way of a very brief summary:

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An important note....
Based on my findings, the destination directory structure DOES NOT NEED TO EXIST!
However, and this IS an important however, the destination directory structure needs to be defined - or more specifically, "explictly stated". For example:

An implicit destination directory structure:
* Source: "C:\Working\Src\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\Test.txt"
* Destination: "C:\Working\Dst\"

An explicit destination directory structure:
* Source: "C:\Working\Src\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\Test.txt"
* Destination: "C:\Working\Dst\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9\"

I have further "investigations" to perform...but I felt that the above requires attention!

Edited by mr-es335
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My understanding is:

AutoIt is a wrapper for Windows functions.
The documentation describes the AutoIt language. It ends where the Windows documentation starts.

My UDFs and Tutorials:

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UDFs:
Active Directory (NEW 2024-07-28 - Version 1.6.3.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki
ExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts
OutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki
OutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - Download
Outlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki
PowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki
Task Scheduler (2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki

Standard UDFs:
Excel - Example Scripts - Wiki
Word - Wiki

Tutorials:
ADO - Wiki
WebDriver - Wiki

 

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