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Re: How to test for the existance of a directory [message #2730]

Mon, 29 August 1994 05:03

braendle
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Registered: May 1994

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William O. Gallery (gallery@aer.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know how to test for the existance of a directory (empty or not)?

You may want to use the findfile command with the full qualified path and
the nul file appended to. E.g:
print, findfile("C:\temp\nul")
If the directory exists (empty or not) the file nul exists as well and
will be returned by findfile. I am using this with Windows IDL, not sure wether
it works with other operating systems

Hope this helps,
Gerhard

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