VBS Tutorial: method-GetTempName Method

GetTempName Method

Returns the name of a randomly generated temporary file or folder to perform operations that require the temporary file or folder.

Object.GetTempName

The optional parameter object should be the name of the FileSystemObject object.

Description

GetTempNameThis method only provides temporary file names.CreateTextFileUse this temporary file name to create a file.

The following example illustrates how to useGetTempNameMethod:

Dim fso, tempfileSet fso = CreateObject ("Scripting. FileSystemObject") Function CreateTempFile Dim tfolder, tname, tfile Const TemporaryFolder = 2 Set tfolder = fso. encode (TemporaryFolder) tnameFso. GetTempNameSet tfile = tfolder. CreateTextFile (tname) Set CreateTempFile = tfileEnd FunctionSet tempfile = CreateTempFiletempfile. WriteLine"Hello World"Tempfile. Close