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VBScript in a Nutshell
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VBScript in a Nutshell

by Matt Childs, Paul Lomax, Ron Petrusha
May 1995
Beginner
508 pages
16h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

FileSystemObject.GetTempName Method

Syntax

                  oFileSysObj.GetTempName
oFileSysObj

Use: Required

Data Subtype: FileSystemObject object

Any object variable returning a FileSystemObject object.

Return Value

A Variant of subtype String.

Description

Returns a system-generated temporary file or folder name.

Rules at a Glance

GetTempName doesn’t create a temporary file or folder; it simply provides a name you can use with the CreateTextFile method.

Programming Tips & Gotchas

As a general rule, you shouldn’t create your own temporary filenames. Windows provides an algorithm within the Windows API to generate the special temporary file and folder names so that it can recognize them later. The GetTempName method nicely wraps this GetTempFilename API function.

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