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Re: File test [message #4445 is a reply to message #4444]

Tue, 30 May 1995 00:00

knipp
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Registered: January 1993

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In article fsf@ruund7.fys.ruu.nl, wolf@ruund7.fys.ruu.nl (Wolf Wolfswinkel) writes:
> Hi,
>
> What is the best way to test for the existance of a file ? I can't
> find it in the manual. At the moment I use something like this :
>
> FUNCTION fexists, file
> ON_IOERROR, error
> openr,1,file
> close,1
> ; found the file
> return, 1
>
> error:
> ;can't open the file, so it's probably not there
> return,0
> end
>
> But there must be a much more elegant way, I think.
>
> Gr.
> Wolf
>
> --
> ===============================================
> \ /\ / Wolf Wolfswinkel
> \ / \ \/ /
> \/ \/\ /\ / W.Wolfswinkel@fys.ruu.nl
> \/ \/
>

found = findfile(FILENAME) ne "" ; FILENAME WITHOUT WILDCARD
; found will either be 0 or 1

Karl

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