fileContains

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Availability

This routine is available starting with SIL Engine™ 1.0.

Syntax

fileContains(path_to_file, regex [, charset])

Description

Returns "true" if the file contains any string that matches the specified regex. If the regex contains a backslash replace it with two backslashes otherwise you will get a syntax error.

Parameters

Parameter name	Type	Required	Description
path_to_file	string	Yes	Specifies the file name.
regex	string	Yes	Specifies search string into the file path_to_file.
charset	string	No	The charset, optional. If you need to open a text file and the encoding is different, use a value that matches a valid charset name. Available starting with katl-commons 4.0.0.

Return type

boolean (true/false)

Example

//This will match any "com.keplerrominfo.jira" occurence in myfile.txt.
fileContains("C:/myfile.txt","com\\.keplerrominfo.jira");

Notes

It is recommended that you use absolute file paths with forward slashes ( / ).

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