Re: how to check whether the file exists or not ?

[Emil Galicinao <e.galicinao@MOTOROLA.COM>]

Hi Chandru

You can try something like this:

let #fstatus = exists($xls_file)

  if #fstatus = 0
    {codes to open the file  (0 means the file exist)}

Where:
$xls_file = filename

--
Best Regards,
Emil
RDC


"Chandrashekhar.A.M" wrote:

> hi gurus,
>     can anybody tell me  how to check whether a file exists or not?
> what i am doing is , i want to open a file for reading if the file exists.
> now it is giveing error when i am going to open the file because it is
> not there.
>     thanks in advance
> chandru



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