File, Folder and Read functions

File, Folder and Read functions operate on files and folders, like makedir or storage_name or read data in specific formats, like readlines

• existingfile - full path name of the filename argument if the file exists and in the alternative argument if the file does not exists
• createfile - copies the source filename to the target filename
• initfile - copies the init filename to the target filename, synonym for CreateFile
• copyfile - copies the source filename to the target filename

• currentdir - the folder of the root file of the loaded configuration
• makedir - creates a new folder
• fullpathname - full path name of the folder_or_filename argument

• exec - executes a command argument
• exec_ec - executes a command with a returning exitcode
• execdll - executes a function in the dll

• storage_name - value of the StorageName property

• readvalue - a single parameter value from a string dataitem
• readarray - an attribute, with row(s) of values from a string dataitem
• readlines - an attribute with the concatenation of the values of the rows
• readelems - an attribute, with column(s) of values from a string dataitem

• parse_xml - parses the contents of the argument with XML data into a set of configured attributes, based on the xml_scheme argument.