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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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    fac := chilkat.NewFileAccess()

    targetPath := fac.SymlinkTarget("qa_data/my_symlink")
    if fac.LastMethodSuccess() != true {
        fmt.Println("Failed to get symlink target.")
        fac.DisposeFileAccess()
        return
    }

    fmt.Println("target path = ", *targetPath)

    fac.DisposeFileAccess()