Path¶

Represents a path. Contains suffixes that can be helpful when using and manipulating paths. You can use path() to create new instances.

Instances of this structure can be passed as arguments instead of ordinary, string paths, for example:

copypath("../file", path()).

structure Path¶

Suffix	Type	Description
`VOLUME`	`Volume`	Volume this path belongs to
`SEGMENTS`	`List` of `String`	List of this path’s segments
`LENGTH`	`Scalar`	Number of segments in this path
`NAME`	`String`	Name of file or directory this path points to
`HASEXTENSION`	`Boolean`	True if path contains an extension
`EXTENSION`	`String`	This path’s extension
`ROOT`	`Path`	Root path of this path’s volume
`PARENT`	`Path`	Parent path
`CHANGENAME(name)`	`Path`	Returns a new path with its name (last segment) changed
`CHANGEEXTENSION(extension)`	`Path`	Returns a new path with extension changed
`ISPARENT(path)`	`Boolean`	True if path is the parent of this path
`COMBINE(name1, [name2, ...])`	`Path`	Returns a new path created by adding further elements to this one

Path:VOLUME¶

Type: Volume
Access: Get only

Volume this path belongs to.

Path:SEGMENTS¶

Type: List of String
Access: Get only

List of segments this path contains. Segments are parts of the path separated by /. For example path 0:/directory/subdirectory/script.ks contains the following segments: directory, subdirectory and script.ks.

Path:LENGTH¶

Type: Scalar
Access: Get only

Number of this path’s segments.

Path:NAME¶

Type: String
Access: Get only

Name of file or directory this path points to (same as the last segment).

Path:HASEXTENSION¶

Type: Boolean
Access: Get only

True if the last segment of this path has an extension.

Path:EXTENSION¶

Type: String
Access: Get only

Extension of the last segment of this path.

Path:ROOT¶

Type: Path
Access: Get only

Returns a new path that points to the root directory of this path’s volume.

Path:PARENT¶

Type: Path
Access: Get only

Returns a new path that points to this path’s parent. This method will throw an exception if this path does not have a parent (its length is 0).

Path:CHANGENAME(name)¶

Parameters

name – String new path name

Returns

Path

Will return a new path with the value of the last segment of this path replaced (or added if there’s none).

Path:CHANGEEXTENSION(extension)¶

Parameters

extension – String new path extension

Returns

Path

Will return a new path with the extension of the last segment of this path replaced (or added if there’s none).

Path:ISPARENT(path)¶

Parameters

path – Path path to check

Returns

Boolean

Returns true if path is the parent of this path.

Path:COMBINE(name1, [name2, ...])¶

Parameters

name – String segments to add

Returns

Path

Returns a new path that represents the file or directory that would be reached by starting from this path and then appending the path elements given in the list.

e.g:

set p to path("0:/home").
set p2 to p:combine("d1", "d2", "file.ks").
print p2
0:/home/d1/d2/file.ks