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Checking the existence of a file with only part of the file's name [message #94598]

Wed, 19 July 2017 09:07

thtran296
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Registered: June 2017

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Hello everybody,

So I have thousands of text files, with the names like "textABC05_023.tab"
I want to check if one of these files exists. So I use the following:

result = file_test('Documents/DataFile/textABC05_023.tab') & print, result

The problem is, this only works if I know the exact full name of the file. What if I only want to check the existence of files, given that I know only part of the name, like "textABC05" (omitting the "_023" part)?

Part of the reasons I want to do that is these files have really random numbers at the end, and all I care is whether their names match up to the part textABC05, and if they did, then they exist.

Thank you for all your assistance.

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		Checking the existence of a file with only part of the file's name By: thtran296 on Wed, 19 July 2017 09:07
		Re: Checking the existence of a file with only part of the file's name By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 19 July 2017 10:51

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