Robo-FTP User's Guide > Script Programming > Script Commands > All Script Commands > GETPROPERTY - Read the value of an existing name-value pair

Syntax:	GETPROPERTY	[ name ] = [ variable ]
Arguments:	[ name ]	Variable or string defining a named property
	[ variable ]	A variable to store the property value retrieved from the Robo-FTP settings; the variable is created if it did not previously exist.
Options:	none

This command copies the value of a persistent name-value pair into a script variable. A name-value pair with a matching [ name ] must have previously been created by the SETPROPERTY command, but not necessarily in the current instance of Robo-FTP. Passing an undeclared variable or a non-existent property name to the [ name ] argument will result in an error.

In this example properties are used to compose an automatic email message:

GETPROPERTY "LastDownloadName" dl_name

GETPROPERTY "LastDownloadDate" dl_date

SET body = "The last file downloaded was " + dl_name + "."

SET body = body + " It was transferred on " + dl_date + ". " + %crlf

GETPROPERTY "EmailNotifyAddress" email

SET subj = "Automatic download report (do not reply)"

CREATEMAIL "" email subj body ""

SENDMAIL "120.33.13.10" "Joe Blow" "[email protected]"

This example shows logic to gracefully detect and recover from an attempt to read the value of an undefined name-value pair:

GETPROPERTY "FileCount" files

IFERROR= $ERROR_SUCCESS GOTO nextstep

;; we reach this row if "FileCount" property did not already exist

SETPROPERTY "FileCount" 0

SETNUM files = 0

:nextstep

The READFILE and WRITEFILE commands are are also available for handling persistent data; especially data that is too long to save in properties.

Related command(s): SET, SETPROPERTY, READFILE