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Get the Target of a Symbolic Link

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Demonstrates how to get the target of a symbolic link.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.77 or greater.

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LOCAL oFac
LOCAL cTargetPath

oFac := CreateObject("Chilkat.FileAccess")

cTargetPath := oFac:SymlinkTarget("qa_data/my_symlink")
IF (oFac:LastMethodSuccess != 1)
    ? "Failed to get symlink target."
    oFac:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

? "target path = " + cTargetPath

oFac:destroy()