JCL Help:ForceDirectories

 JCL Help: ForceDirectories Function

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Summary

Creates all the directories along a directory path if they do not already exist.

Pascal

 function ForceDirectories(Name: string): Boolean;

Parameters

Parameters	Description
Name: string	Directory path to be created, if it doesn't exist already.

Return Value

ForceDirectories returns True if it successfully creates all necessary directories, False if it could not create a needed directory.

Description

Creates all the directories along a directory path if they do not already exist. Note that this routine was copied from FileCtrl.pas to avoid a dependency on that unit, see source code further more details.

About

Unit

JclFileUtils

Donator

Marcel van Brakel

Notes

Do not call ForceDirectories with an empty string. Doing so causes ForceDirectories to raise an exception.

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