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06/10/1998 20:04:20
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00144148
Message ID:
00144413
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24
>Hi John,
>
>>I am trying to verify if a file is present on the disk. I have tried FILE() but it also checks along the path and returns true if it finds the file anywhere. If I have a full file name how can I verify that it is present on the disk?
>
>If you pass the full path and name to FILE() it should not look anywhere else. Alternatively you can use ADIR():
>
>LOCAL laFile[1]
>IF ADIR(laFile,"MyFile") > 0
>   * File does exist
>ENDIF
>Christof

Thanks for the reply Christof. I looked in the help file for FILE() and found that it will ignore the drive and path if set compatable is off...

Thanks
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