Name
 
Renames a file on disk

Syntax

Declare Function Name( ByRef oldname As Const String, ByRef newname As Const String ) As Long

Usage

result = Name( oldname, newname )

Parameters

oldname
Name of an existing file.
newname
New name of the file.

Return Value

Returns zero (0) on success and non-zero on failure.

Description

Renames a file or folder originally called oldname to newname.

The function is not guaranteed to succeed if a file/folder exists with the same name. It may succeed, overwriting the original, or it may fail. For greater control, FileExists could be used to test for an existing file, and Kill could be used to delete an existing file beforehand.

Example

Dim OldName As String
Dim NewName As String
Dim result As Integer 

OldName = "dsc001.jpg"
NewName = "landscape.jpg"

result = Name( OldName, NewName )
If 0 <> result Then 
    Print "error renaming " & oldname & " to " & newname & "."
End If


Differences from QB

  • In QB, NAME required AS rather than a comma between the old and new names. This is because NAME was a language keyword rather than a function.

See also