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Re: How to test for the existance of a director [message #2729]

Mon, 29 August 1994 06:44

kump
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Registered: January 1994

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In article fm5@cobra.aer.com, gallery@aer.com (William O. Gallery) writes:
> Does anyone know how to test for the existance of a directory (empty or not)?
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> William O. Gallery gallery@aer.com
> Atmospheric & Environmental Research Voice(617) 349-2284
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> Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 FAX (617) 661-6479

In UNIX environment (Sun sparc, sunos):

x='/users/kump/idl_data/goodstuff'
;I am testing for directory goodstuff'
as=findfile(x)
if as(0) eq '' then found=0 else found=1

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Ken Kump

Biomedical Image Processing Laboratory
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA

E-mail: kump@morph.ebme.cwru.edu

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