File Handle vs. File Path

[TheDcoder]

Hello , I want to know the advantage of using a file handle in functions like FileRead or FileWrite... Maybe a file handle has better speed...

 

Thanks in Advance, TD

 

P.S I am going to sleep after posting this

[Jos]

When doing a FileRead() or FileWrite() with an Filename as Parameter, Autoit3 will do an FileOpen,FileRead,Fileclose.

So you can imagine this is very inefficient when reading or writing multiple records.

Jos

[Melba23]

TheDcoder,

From the Help file for FileRead (once again you appear not to have read it before posting):

If a filename is given rather than a file handle - 
the file will be opened and closed during the function call - 
for parsing large files this will be much slower than using filehandles.

M23

[TheDcoder]

Thanks everyone!