Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A name given to a computer file to distinguish it from other files, often containing an extension that classifies it by type.

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  • noun computing The name assigned to a collection of records (i.e. lines) within a filesystem.

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  • noun (computer science) the name given to a computer file in order to distinguish it from other files; may contain an extension that indicates the type of file

Etymologies

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file +‎ name

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Examples

  • POSTdata = % POSTdata%&Content-Disposition = attachment ` % 3B+filename ` % 3D ` % 24 {filename}; not sure why it's +filename and not just filename

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  • SqlCommand ( "insert into imageArchive (filename, imgblob, extension) values (@filename, @imgBlob)", cn)

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  • POSTdata = % POSTdata%&Content-Disposition = attachment ` % 3B+filename ` % 3D ` % 24 {filename}; not sure why it's +filename and not just filename

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  • "SELECT * FROM [files] WHERE ([filename] = @filename)"

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  • "SELECT * FROM [files] WHERE ([filename] = @filename)"

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  • If you're creating your objects directly, you might declare a filename () accessor method to get and set the name of the configuration file: sub filename my ($self, $filename) = @_;

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  • "SELECT * FROM [files] WHERE ([filename] = @filename)"

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  • "SELECT * FROM [files] WHERE ([filename] = @filename)"

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  • "SELECT * FROM [files] WHERE ([filename] = @filename)"

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  • "SELECT * FROM [files] WHERE ([filename] = @filename)"

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