CopyFileTo Function

Copies the source file to the destination file.

Pascal

function CopyFileTo(
    const Source: string; 
    const Destination: string
): Boolean;

Parameters

Parameters	Description
Source	Source file name.
Destination	Destination file name.

Returns

Boolean - Indicates if the file was copied.

Description

CopyFileTo is a function used to copy the file specified in Source to the file specified in Destination.

CopyFileTo will return False if the file in Destination already exists.

CopyFileTo encapsulates the platform-specific calls needed to perform the file copy operation. On the Windows platform, this is the Win32 API function CopyFile. On the Linux platform, CopyFileTo uses a TFileStream instance to create the destination file.