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[Omga4000]

Hey all

So I was trying to change a file name using FileMove, but it didn't work for me.
(Maybe I just didn't use it in the right way?)

Is there another way to change a file name?

Thank you!

[water]

How do you call FileMove and what is the return value?

[Omga4000]

I've simply copied the line from the help file:
http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/FileMove.htm

FileMove("C:\foo.au3", "D:\mydir\bak.au3")

and all I did was just change the destination.
Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.. Weird.

EDIT: It does work right now. Even weirder
However now I have another problem.
How do I use a variable in this code?

I need to change the files names and add a number to the beginning.
e.g:
a.txt --> 3a.txt
b.txt --> 3b.txt

I've tried something like this:

$num = 11
FileMove("C:\text.txt", "c:\" & $num & "text.txt")

But it didn't work of course..

Edited by Omga4000, 06 September 2011 - 12:50 PM.

[water]

Change your code to do some error checking

$num = 11
$iResult = FileMove("C:\text.txt", "c:\" & $num & "text.txt")
MsgBox(0,"", "Result: " & $iResult)

Edited by water, 06 September 2011 - 12:58 PM.

[Omga4000]

Now I get it.. Thank you!