ContentObject

gives a content object whose content is string.

gives a content object whose content is stored in the specified file.

ContentObject["name₁"val₁,"name₂"val₂,…]

gives a content object with a sequence of fields with names name_i and values val_i.

Details

Properties of content objects can be obtained using ContentObject[…]["property"].
Possible properties can include:

	"CreationDate"	creation date for file or content object
	"FileByteCount"	size of the content of the object on disk, in bytes
	"FileExtension"	the file extension, e.g. ".txt"
	"FileName"	original file name, excluding directory
	"FileSize"	size as a Quantity object
	"Location"	location of the original source as a string
	"ModificationDate"	modification date for file or content object
	"Plaintext"	content converted to a string
	"ReferenceLocation"	cloud-accessible URL to use to reference this content
	"Score"	score assigned to the content object in a search
	"Snippet"	snippet of the content
	"SnippetSource"	cloud-accessible document path for producing snippets

Some properties, such as "Snippet", are typically only computed when requested.
When a content object is created from a file, the "Plaintext" property will typically be computed by first importing the file.
ContentObject[…] can be used in the input to CreateSearchIndex.

TextSearch with "ContentObject" as third argument returns a list of content objects:

Get the file name of the first result:

Create an object containing some text:

Get only a snippet of the text:

It is also possible to use the Snippet function:

Get properties of the file:

A ContentObject can contain a string:

ContentObject contains metadata:

"Location" and "FileName" are not available if the document is not saved on disk:

Top